Milter-greylist

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0200, Nils-Henner Krueger wrote:
> Together with the 125000 mails given above I get about 14000
> times log messages like this in sendmail log:
> 
> Jul  6 00:04:29 xxx sendmail[21218]: [ID 801593 mail.error] j65M4Ig5021218: Milter (greylist): timeout before data read
> Jul  6 00:04:29 xxx sendmail[21218]: [ID 801593 mail.info] j65M4Ig5021218: Milter (greylist): to error state
> 
> That sounds like milter-greylist isn't answering fast enough

That usually happens if you use SPF (which is enabled by default) and the
DNS query of the SPF records takes too long.

> so sendmail is giving up and skipping it.

That depends on your sendmail configuration. My machine will reject e-mails
with a 4xx errors if milter-greylist doesn't respond.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/