Milter-greylist

Phil Randal wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > That's true. The problem you described can happen if the
 > > "autowhite" value is shorter than the "timeout" value.
 > > I've set both to 5d and didn't have any problems.
 > > 
 > > The documentation should mention that the "autowhite"
 > > setting should be at least as long as the "timeout"
 > > setting (or longer, of course), and the default values
 > > should obey that.
 > 
 > Computers are cleverer than mere mortals, so let milter-greylist do that 
 > consistency checking for us.

I hate programs that try to be cleverer than me.  There
are already too many of those.

 > Milter-greylist should use max(specified_autowhite,timeout) as the 
 > autowhite value, put a warning message into the log, and continue.

No.  It should use exactly the values I tell it to use.
Producing a warning message is OK, of course.  That's 
exactly what milter-greylist's -c option is good for.

Best regards
   Oliver

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