Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Matt Kettler <mkettler@e...>
wrote:
>
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
> > A question that I have with a 1 minute delay, what is the average
> > delay that your users have to live with?  I guess most SMTP clients
> > won't knock again after 2 min right?
> 
> Right.. However most legitimate messages retry in 15 mins. Also, I don't
> greylist all my mail. I default to white, and selectively greylist,
so my
> "average delay" is pretty much 0. Very few greylisted messages ever get
> delivered, and nearly all that do are spam.
> 
> 
> On a quick survey of delays for this week:
> 
> delayed for 00:01:00 (pre-accept first try):
>   17802
> not delayed and delivered (total)
>   13050
> not delayed and delivered (not spam tagged)
>    6368
> not delayed and delivered (spam tagged)
>    6682
> delivered after being delayed (total)
>     298
> delivered after being delayed (not spam tagged)
>      44
> delivered after being delayed (spam tagged)
>     254
> 
> And of the 298 messages that were delayed, here's the distribution
of time:
> 
> 109 < 15mins
> 74  15min-1hr
> 98 1hr-12 hrs
> 17 > 24hrs
> 
> I can't easily do a breakdown of the 44 that were non-spam, I'd have
to collect
> the SMTP transaction IDs from the SA messages, and then backtrack.
> 
> 
> A little SpamAssassin ruleset that I use to track greylisted vs
ungreylisted
> spam is this:
> 
> header INFO_GREYLIST_DELAYED        X-Greylist =~ /Delayed for /
> score INFO_GREYLIST_DELAYED                       0.001
> 
> header INFO_GREYLIST_NOTDELAYED        X-Greylist =~ / not delayed by /
> score INFO_GREYLIST_NOTDELAYED                    -0.001
> 
> This way I can grep for those two in my SA logs. However, the timing
info comes
> from milter-greylist's logging. (I use MailScanner which batch-scans
mail, so
> the log lines don't always follow each other)
>

Would you mind sharing the script you're using to get those stats?

I am using MailWatch...

Regards,