Milter-greylist

Hi Emmanuel,

> Michael Mansour <mic@...> wrote:
> 
> > If you have other ideas of how this can be done please let me know.
> 
> An include statement would be an interesting feature indeed. OTOH, 

Yes, as a caveat the person would need to get used to running "milter-greylist
-cf" or script it with an errorlevel 0 response before actually applying the
update.

I synchronise the greylist.conf file on four servers when I change it on one.

> the ability to query a database directly might be even more interesting.

Even better actually. I use MailWatch which provides the database and web
interface to MailScanner, which does all the hard work of scanning and
filtering mail.

Pulling (or reading) information from the MailWatch database is very easy. The
way it's done in MailScanner is by giving it a call to a couple of perl
modules via the MailScanner.conf:

Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist
Is Definitely Spam = &SQLBlacklist

where the "&" symbol defines the use of a "custom function", where all custom
functions reside:

/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/SQLBlackWhiteList.pm

The Custom Functions don't need the setup of config for the SQL username,
password etc since they get MailScanner to provide that information.

> You'll have to wait for the next release for new features. 4.0 is at
> release candidate stage, which means we will only fix serious bugs now.

Yes that's fine, I'd expect a lot of work would go into such functionality and
it would likely take months, but this type of functionality will allow
thousands of MailWatch admins, where many use milter-greylist, to provide more
functionality (and ease of use) for their users.

I already display the Greylist delays logged by milter-greylist in the
MailWatch interface on each message, where users can see the delays and then
drill down to the message headers and content. A howto has been provided on
the mailscanner wiki for how to integrate milter-greylist delays into MailWatch.

Regards,

Michael.

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