Milter-greylist

Jim Hermann - UUN Hostmaster <hostmaster@...> wrote:

> I don't have gdb available, so I have been running in foreground with the
> -Dv options.  The only crash so far left a message about an Alarm.  
> 
> Also, it appears that milter-greylist may be more stable in verbose mode.  I
> ran the Daemon for a couple of days in verbose mode without any incidents.

That suggests a timing-dependent issue, since the olny difference is
that it gets slower due to debug printf.

> One thing that I have noticed is that my greylist.db is over 3 MB.
> 
> Why does milter-greylist keep tuples that were delayed and did not retry
> before the greylist_delay transpired?

When we cleanup any tuple, we have to walk the database, and we use that
opportunity to cleanup any expired entry we find.

> When I start milter-greylist, it takes several minutes to load the existing
> database in verbose mode.

You can remove the printf related to database laoding, that will speed
it up.


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