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Re: [milter-greylist] milter greylist ignoring whitelist of ip.

2006-09-14 by Michael Osten

On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Matt Kettler wrote:

> Michael Osten wrote:
>> I posted about this a couple of weeks ago.  We are a large ISP and
>> receive approx. 8+ million emails a day.  We maintain a list of  
>> white-
>> listed that is around 6k entries at present.  The question was raised
>> as to why we have so many entries.  We have this many entries as we
>> have found that there are a lot of broken MTA's out there, and our
>> customers need to receive mail from legitimate hosts regardless of
>> the limitations of of the MTA (old Novell groupwise, misconfigured
>> Postfix, etc).
>>
>>
>> We are seeing addresses being greylisted despite being whitelisted.
>>
>> rb:/etc/mail# grep 216.139.107.5 greylist.conf
>> acl whitelist addr 216.139.107.5
>>
>
> Are you sure that whitelist statement occurs before your greylist  
> statement(s)?
>
> Order matters, as milter-greylist will scan from the start of the  
> list and act
> on the first ACL that matches.


I was just reading that, but in the default greylist.conf file the  
"acl greylist default" was not at the bottom of the file.
--
Michael Osten

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