Milter-greylist

manu@... wrote:
> shuttlebox <shuttlebox@...> wrote:
>
>   
>> Another thing, the patch for Solaris file descriptor problems never
>> made it? There was talk about an option, disabled by default.
>>     
>
> I just integrated 4 out of the 5 patches from Johann E. Klasek:
>
>         Cleanup temporary file after DB dump failure
>         Handle libc that fails stdio without setting errno 
>         Fixes the usage of the thread-proof resolver library
>         Do not quit on non fatal errors
>
> The last one is the biggest, it's the workaround for Solaris' limitation
> to file descriptors < 256. We had a positive report and a negative one.
> It would be nice if more people could give it a try:
> http://jk.kom.tuwien.ac.at/~jklasek/software/milter-greylist/
> mg.stdio-solaris.patch
>
> I'm also somewhat puzzled about the Solaris fiasco: it seems
> milter-greylist used to work on Solaris. What change broke it? Who is
> using Solaris with a 32 bit milter-greylist? What is milter-greylist
> version?


hmm. milter-greylist-1.6 compiled 32bit on Solaris 9 with gcc 3.3.2. 
SPARC (Sun E250).

I have no idea if this is the same issue. We periodically find 
milter-greylist not running. This happens more often on our more heavily 
loaded mail system. We have a cron job that checks whether it is running 
and restarts it if it is not. It appears that it may happen at times 
when we are really being hammered by spammers.

Major caveat: our milter-greylist-1.6 is patched with a code segment 
that reads popip.db (berkeley db created and maintained by poprelayd) 
and bypasses greylisting if someone reads their mail from that IP before 
trying to send mail. We're ditching this now, since we have moved to 
requiring our users to use smtp-auth, among other things. But, it is in 
the code we have been running.



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