[Greylist-users] Waiting until after the DATA phase.

Roman Festchook roma at polesye.net
Thu Jun 26 11:54:43 PDT 2003


On Сер 25 Чер 2003 21:55, martin dempsey wrote:
> > It's noble of you to wait til the end of the DATA phase....
>
> There is also a practical reason. With exim, its *easy* to handle it after
> DATA, but I haven't found a good way without major programming surgery to
> splice in greylisting after RCPT.
>
> If mysql had stored procedures (which are supposedly coming in mysql
> version 5.0), it might be possible to put all of the greylist logic in the
> database and use exims general database query to implement it.
>
> Or if exims ACL facilty allowed you to run generic external programs (which
> seems like a good idea), it would be relatively straightforward.
>
> But right now, using the existing version of exim and mysql, I don't see a
> good, simple way to implement greylisting in exim after RCPT.
I think its good and simple - and its works:)

cut from my exim configure
************************
acl_check_rcpt:
  require domains = +isp_domains # for all my domains
         condition = ${perl{greylist}} # do perl function for greylist
************************

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Roman Festchook
Network Engineer
RF2-UANIC FRA11-RIPE



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