Milter-greylist

On Aug 30, 2006, at 9:40 AM, eclark wrote:

> At the risk of sounding stupid, if you have 6000 exceptions to your  
> greylist,
> it does not seem to me that greylisting is really in your best  
> interests. We
> get something on the order of 2 million messages a day for a paltry  
> 2000
> users, and have only 32 rules total, which includes our internal
> whitelisting. What kind of rules are you using to pad out your acls  
> that
> large?
>
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 10:33 am, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:15:09AM -0500, Michael Osten wrote:
>>> Is there a "max" setting for the number of ACL's in  
>>> greylist.conf?  I
>>> run a very busy site and we currently have over 6k whitelist ACL's.
>>> I am seeing ACL's be ignored that are close to the bottom of the  
>>> list.
>>
>> There is no hardwired limit.

in excess of 8+ million messages a day.  The problem with greylisting  
for us is that there are large amounts of broken MTA's out there  
(groupwise, misconfigured Postfix, Postini, yahoo groups) that we  
really can't just not take mail from (because they do not respect  
temp errors).
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Michael Osten