Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Matt Kettler <mkettler@e...>
wrote:
>
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I know some implementations of greylisting allows for a "learning
> > mode", in which no delays are caused, and the database is populating
> > itself as it sees traffic going by.  Is there a way to do that with
> > milter-greylist.
> 
> Care to elaborate what exactly that does Ugo?
> 
> Unless delays are introduced, there's no way of knowing if a
particular sending
> IP ever retries, so there's nothing to populate with.
> 
> Perhaps this has to do with greylists that pre-emptively
auto-whitelists based
> on outbound mail? (milter-greylist doesn't do this AFAIK) For
systems with that
> feature the monitor-only state would make a lot of sense.

Here is a message that is explaining the concept:

http://lists.tummy.com/pipermail/vpostmaster/2005-October/000105.html

Thanks,