Look at the default configuration: greylist 30m autowhite 1d Consider the following scenario: 1. sender@... sends an email M1 to rcpt@... at 0:00 and gets delayed by milter-greylist. 2. sender@... sends another email M2 at 0:40 and gets accepted. The triplet (IP, sender, rcpt) is added into autowhitelist. 3. The triplet is expired at 24:40. 4. The sender's MTA resends the first email M1 at 25:00 and gets delayed again. 5. sender@... sends yet another email M3 at 25:40 and gets accepted. The triplet is added again into autowhitelist. 6. The triplet is expired at 49:40. 7. The sender's MTA resends the first email M1 at 50:00 and gets delayed again. If above scenario were repeated, the first email M1 whould not delivered and finally bounces to the sender. Lesson: autowhitelist should have enough long lifetime, for example 5 days. Just FYI.
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FYI: Murphy's law of autowhitelist
2006-11-10 by AIDA Shinra
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