Milter-greylist

I've been running some 2.* versions of milter-greylist with great success 
for some two years or so. I'm now going to upgrade to 3.1.4 and have a few 
questions. I also saw that it now supports postfix, so am going to check 
it out for our postfix systems as well.

The basic install just went flawless and there was no problem to keep 
going with the existing greylist.conf. So, many thanks for making this 
upgrade process as perfect as it can be.

- the configure script is not executable by default, is there a reason for 
this?

- the init script for Suse still contains the clause
OPTIONS="-T -L 24 -w 14m -P $pidfile -u $user -p $socket
which leads to problems when you want to change some options in 
greylist.conf since the init parameter string will always override it.

I use OPTIONS="-P $pidfile -u $user -p $socket" which allows changes of 
all values you may typically change at runtime. I suggest changing the 
rc-suse.sh.in file in this way. (Did already back then).
I also added a "sleep 2" between the stop and start for the restart action 
as otherwise sometimes the successful stop would not get correctly 
detected.

- man greylist.conf says to use the "racl" keyword now. I suppose the acl 
keyword is still ok for compatibility reasons? Can I use racl and acl 
keywords mixed?

- the acl syntax used in the greylist.conf and the greylist2.conf is 
different. I suppose the syntax in the greylist.conf allows 
milter-greylist to load the list faster? Hm, just reading man 
greylist.conf says "grouping is sometimes useful". Is that all about it?

- I might want to use the rcptcount racl. Are authenticated clients 
automatically excluded from this if noauth is not set (so clients can send 
out with many recipients but incoming connections to clients can only drop 
a certain number of recipients)? Or would I need to change to "racl auth" 
and put that before the "racl rcptcount" line?

- there has been added quite a bit to the acl stuff and I'm not sure if I 
should make use of that. For instance what's the benefit of using DNSRBL 
in milter-greylist to using it in sendmail? Is there an article out 
somewhere that discusses this? Or how the urlcheck can be used?

Thanks,

Kai

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