I recently started using milter-greylist, and I seem to sometimes have mail get stuck in retries. The system in question is a FreeBSD 6-STABLE box, and the milter-greylist version is 3.0 from the ports collection. My configuration is pretty simple; mostly whitelist, except for some unusually spammy victims. The line from greylist.conf that applies is: acl greylist list "grey users" delay 5m autowhite 36d In troubleshooting the "some mail doesn't get through", I looked in the database dumps, and was very surprised to see the same IP address / source / dest tuple repeated quite a number of times. Here's an example (destination email address hidden, but all are the same) in the auto-whitelisted section: 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171333104 AUTO # 2007-02-12 18:18:24 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171341198 AUTO # 2007-02-12 20:33:18 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171371396 AUTO # 2007-02-13 04:56:36 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171405977 AUTO # 2007-02-13 14:32:57 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171409207 AUTO # 2007-02-13 15:26:47 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171465700 AUTO # 2007-02-14 07:08:20 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171483355 AUTO # 2007-02-14 12:02:35 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171559958 AUTO # 2007-02-15 09:19:18 64.49.216.216 <community@...> <email-address@...> 1171578987 AUTO # 2007-02-15 14:36:27 I also see multiple identical (except for time) entries in the pending dump: 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168538648 # 2007-01-11 10:04:08 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168539088 # 2007-01-11 10:11:28 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168540329 # 2007-01-11 10:32:09 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168542368 # 2007-01-11 11:06:08 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168545208 # 2007-01-11 11:53:28 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168548848 # 2007-01-11 12:54:08 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168553288 # 2007-01-11 14:08:08 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168558530 # 2007-01-11 15:35:30 202.54.124.152 <bardept99@...> <email-address@...> 1168564569 # 2007-01-11 17:16:09 I haven't dived into the source yet to see what debugging taps I can stick in, but thought I'd ask in case it's a simple "oh, yeah, go do <x> in your configuration" type question. Thanks! -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.5" / 37N 20' 15.3" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32-ARIN Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices...
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repeated entries in greylist?
2007-01-12 by steve@watt.com
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