Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Dan Zachary <dan_zachary@...>
wrote:
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> As pointed out previously by Manu, this is a FEATURE, not a bug. It's 
> intended to prevent too many listing in the greylist (remove the serial 
> numbers from list messages that use this pattern).

He only said, that it's a feature. Not what it is intended to do, that
confused me a bit. It sounded a bit like a joke. ;-)

This feature has it's confusing parts. When I first saw it in my db
file, I thought "Oh well, it's broken in the parser?".

As you can see in my previous mail, I finally found out, what it's
good for.

> If you don't like this feature, it could be configurable as an option, 
> but you'd have to write the code and submit it.

IF I find the time, I'd rather consider making this more obvious in
the logs / db dump. Like putting a * in front to show, that it was
trimmed to make it like a wildcard. Or "..." or something like that.
Something, so the admin sees "The software did not just drop/loose
something, it did something intended".
(And I preivously wrote patches for milter-greylist, so I know to
write patches.)


> Dan


    Elrond

> Elrond wrote:
> > --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, manu@ wrote:
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> >> Elrond <yahoo.com@> wrote:
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> >>> Will it be fixed sometime?
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> >> If you submit a patch for making it configurable, it will be
integrated.
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> > Why exactly does it need to be configurable?
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> > You don't want to tell me, that anyone depends on the broken
behaviour?
> > --> If broken entries are in the autowhitelist: milter-greylist will
> > learn the correct ones and forget the old ones.
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> > Or you don't want to tell me, that this is "by design"?
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> > Or... Wait...
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> > Is this for those broken MTAs, that send a unique envelope-sender per
> > attempt? No? Yes? If so, please let me know, where it's documented. It
> > should be documented.
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> >     Elrond
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