[Greylist-users] Is it Possible to NOT use client_ip?
Rob Morin
rob at dido.ca
Fri Nov 30 07:31:17 PST 2007
What do i do to Postgrey to allow only sender and recipient and no IP?
Or do i use x-grey with my postfix, i am confused a bit?
Thanks
Rob Morin
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444
Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Rob Morin once stated:
>
>> My first post to this list, please be gentle... :)
>>
>> Is it possible to NOT consider the client_ip when using postgrey?
>>
>> My problem is we just switched to load balancing and the incoming emails
>> always seem like they come from the same IP address....
>>
>> Would postgrey still be useful if it checked only the to and from ?
>>
>
> Using my own greylist implementation [1], I ran two tests over 565,012
> tuples [2]. The first one used the full [IP,sender,recipient] tuple using a
> 1s embargo timeout (otherwise, using realistic values and timings such a
> test would take a few days):
>
> Start: Thu Nov 29 17:08:21 2007
> End: Thu Nov 29 17:10:59 2007
> Running time: 2m 38s
>
> Requests: 565012
>
> ...
>
> Tuples: 499846
> Graylisted: 499846
> Graylisted-Expired: 0
> Whitelisted: 6945
> Whitelisted-Expired: 0
>
> Rerunning to ignore the IP address, but otherwise unchanged from the
> previous run:
>
> Start: Thu Nov 29 17:16:21 2007
> End: Thu Nov 29 17:19:23 2007
> Running time: 3m 2s
>
> Requests: 565012
>
> ...
>
> Tuples: 499846
> Graylisted: 499846
> Graylisted-Expired: 0
> Whitelisted: 6957
> Whitelisted-Expired: 0
>
> A few more, so it appears that you might be able to skip the IP address.
>
> -spc (Hope this helps some)
>
> [1] http://www.x-grey.com/
>
> [2] Actual tuples seen on production servers while developing X-Grey.
>
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