Milter-greylist

At Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:30:54 +0100,
manu@... wrote:
> 
> AIDA Shinra <shinra@...> wrote:
> 
> > You may worry about compatibility with existing versions. My answer is
> > simple: we must get rid of all existing versions. They are vulnerable.
> > They dumbly records given mail addresses and fails to parse
> > greylist.db. All efforts to keep compatibilitiy cannot change things
> > better. We only need to make sure that the new milter-greylist can
> > load existing greylist.db.
> 
> When I wrote it initially, my idea was that I didn't care about
> unparsable addresses that could get into the database, because I could
> just ignore them when reloading. 
> 
> So in my opinion, the problem is just that we bug on reloading bogus
> addresses from the database, where we should just ignore them and skip
> the line.
> 
> Do you see any problem with that approach?

Sounds reasonable. In this approach we only need to take care about
lex/yacc caveats and non-ASCII characters breaking ctype(3).