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Re: [milter-greylist] Few questions.

2006-01-22 by manu@netbsd.org

Sysadmin <sysadmin@...> wrote:

> I noticed some similar software (portgrey) are also capable to adjust
> the minimal count of mails before a client is whitelisted, 
> milter-greylist accepts clients after one try, true or false?

There is a minimum time before the retry will be accepted. It is
configurable, see the man page.
 
> And about memory and database, I compile milter-greylist with db4 
> support, I understand, that all information are keeped memory and dumped
> for backup into db? But the db file is plain text based, so is it the
> database file at all? And does the dump file rotate ever? And how to 
> check the actual memory use?

DB is not used for the greylisting database. It is stored in memory and
regularly dumped to disk in a flat file.

ps will give you the memory use.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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manu@...

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