Milter-greylist

Steven Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:19:59 -0600, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists@...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>I found my problem. There was an error in one of my whitelist lines. When I
>>converted to 1.75, I edited the conf and had a syntax error.  When an error is
>>found, it looks like milter-greylist falls back on defaults.  IAC, I fixed the
>>error, ran milter-greylist -c with a good result, and it's now working as
>>expected and desired.
> 
> 
> Turns out that wasn't it.  The first couple of incomings got the "wait
> 00:30:00 ". Then it went random again:
> 
> My greylist.cnf file says:
> 
> greylist 30s
> 
> but.... this is in the log
> 
> please come back in 00:30:00 
> ome back in 00:30:00         
> please come back in 00:30:00 
> please come back in 00:29:58 
> please come back in 00:30:00 
> please come back in 00:29:56 
>  back in 00:30:00            
> please come back in 00:30:00 
> please come back in 00:30:00 
>  back in 00:30:00            
> please come back in 00:27:58 
> please come back in 00:27:38 
> please come back in 00:30:00 
> please come back in 00:01:00 
> please come back in 00:25:12 
>  back in 00:24:58            
>  back in 00:23:36            
> please come back in 00:22:23 
> please come back in 00:22:21 
> please come back in 00:01:00 
> please come back in 00:01:00 
> please come back in 00:22:49 
> please come back in 00:20:04 
> please come back in 00:21:33 
> please come back in 00:17:56 
>  back in 00:18:31            
> please come back in 00:16:36 
> please come back in 00:14:08 
> please come back in 00:14:03 
> please come back in 00:14:02 
> please come back in 00:14:02 
> please come back in 00:14:01 
> please come back in 00:14:00 
> please come back in 00:15:18 
> please come back in 00:12:40 
> please come back in 00:15:02 
> please come back in 00:12:26 
>  back in 00:13:29            
> 

Do the entries that are not 00:30:00 match up with a previous entry? 
I've seen a few overzeleous mail servers that are retrying every minute, 
and each time they get a 'please come back in [time remaining]' 
incremented for the time they have left.