Milter-greylist

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Constantine A. Murenin
<mureninc@...> wrote:
> * My current understanding, not explicitly supported by
> greylist.conf(5), is that with milter-greylist this 'timeout' value
> corresponds to the period of time that the greylisting tuples are
> stored after the greylist time is already over, e.g. if you have
> 'greylist 1h' and 'timeout 4h', then the total time the brute force
> tuples are stored before being ejected is 5h, not 4 hours as it would
> have been with the suggested timeout terminology from the original
> whitepaper and some other greylisting implementations.

That can't be right but I vaguely remember that the actual cleansing
of the database is done not directly at timeout but following some
other algorithm, probably when there's a number of tuples to remove.
Maybe that's why you think it's the sum of those times or because the
actual database is in memory, the disk copy is just that - a copy
dumped periodically so that file can contain tuples no longer in
memory.

/peter
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