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Re: [milter-greylist] Greylist timing

2007-02-21 by Joel Reicher

> milter-greylist can offer invaluable data regarding what the "magic" 
> number of delay minutes is before purging a greylist entry. By 
> recording the time when an entry enters the the greylist, latest time 
> it was accessed, versus those entries that were auto-whitelisted; a 
> histogram might be constructed to optimize the greylist timeout 
> period. I would assume this would offend no one, and would give each 
> user an insight into how long it takes to get spam-bot's to give up 
> versus the annoying delay joining new BBS's, etc.

Can't you get all this info from the standard maillog output of
milter-greylist-3.0?

Cheers,

	- Joel

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