Milter-greylist

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:14:57AM -0400, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> I have run into a problem, possibly because of my noobiness with this
> milter, but i installed this on my mail servers over the weekend, and it
> does seem to do the trick...however i started experiencing a total lack
> of mail delivery even though i manually whitelisted maillist domains,
> etc, NOTHING was being delivered, except in very very small spurts. So,

If nothing was delivered, check your mail log file (the one where
syslog puts mail.* entries) and see what happened to them. Neither
sendmail nor milter-greylist will just eat messages without reporting.

What about your greylist.db file - were entries added to the greylist
tuples, and later moved to the auto-whitelisted tuples ?

> i disabled it, turned it off, and removed it from the sendmail.cf and
> restarted sendmail - THREE DAYS LATER, i am still seeing delays and
> non-deliverability to my MXs. 

milter-greylist does not have any effect as soon as you take it 
out of sendmail's configuration. It's not possible that it affects
messages which are sent *after* disabling it.

When talking about non-deliverability - what does the error message
say that the original sender receives ?

mp.