Milter-greylist

--- "Brian W. Antoine" <briana@...>
wrote:

> At 01:59 PM 2/19/05, you wrote:
> 
> >Hey -
> >
> >Is there a good way to check to see how many
> messages which were delayed by 
> >milter-greylist which never retried?
> >
> >I tried counting all instances of "Greylisting in
> action" from 
> >/var/log/maillog and then all instances of
> "X-Greylist" but the figures were 
> >not what I expected.  I thought there would be more
> greylist delays then 
> >accepted messages but I think because I'm on so
> many really high volume 
> >mailing lists that wasn't a good idea.
> >
> >I'm sure there's a fairly simple way to script it
> but I'm drawing a blank.
> 
>   I wrote a crude program to parse our sendmail logs
> each morning after they
> get rotated.  It builds a linked list of each
> instance of "milter-greylist" that
> is also "delayed for", then removes all the entries
> that later have a
> "milter-greylist" and "autowhitelisted for".  The
> fields saved for each entry
> are the from, addr and rcpt.  It doesn't catch
> everything, for example it
> will fail to notice an entry that got greylisted
> just before the log was
> rotated and whitelisted after, and it's falsely
> reporting filtered email
> when the whitelisting the comes along later is a
> slightly different address,
> but it does give a good rough idea how the filter is
> operating.
> 
>   You're on the right track, at least from what I've
> found in my own experiments.
> 

Hi,

Could you let us share your nice code?  Thanks!

Harvey



		
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