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Re: [milter-greylist] Questions about greylist.db file...

2005-10-27 by Emmanuel Dreyfus

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:14:12PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
> > 2. Why at registration of the incoming letters in greylist.db such 
> > convenient parameter, how Message-ID is not used?
> 
> At the time of greylisting, the Message-ID is not known.
> 
> You'll only know the message-id after the end of the SMTP DATA phase when the
> message has already been transfered.

And the missing bit: you can wait SMTP data stage for greylisting, but if
you do that you cannot have different settings for different recipients: the
mail will be greylisted (or whitelisted) for every recipient.
-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...

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