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Re: [milter-greylist] AutoWhitelist the sender's IP only

2005-11-08 by Matt Kettler

Raul Dias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am dont know if this have being discussed before.
> 
> Why not autowhitelist the server IP address only?
> 
> If a tuple gets autowhitelisted, it is because the senders is using a
> real smtp (and there is nothing greylist can do about it) or a clever
> spam tool.
> 
> After one AWL tuple from this server, we can assume that every message
> will be AWLed sooner or later.
> 
> So, why not use only the senders smtpd IP address for AWL?
> This would speedup all messages that would have to be AWL later on
> anyway (evem spam), and save the servers memory.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 

Yes, the fact that this exists already.. it's the lazyaw option.

From greylist.conf:

# Uncomment if you want auto-whitelist to work for
# the IP rather than for the (IP, sender, reciever)
# tuple.
#lazyaw

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