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Re: [~Disarmed~] [milter-greylist] greylist.db

2008-08-05 by Michael Menge

Quoting Lucien GENTIS <lucien.gentis@...>:

> Kirill Bychkov a écrit :
>> Eduardo, thank you!
>>
>>
>>    Kirill Bychkov escribió:
>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>    How to reduce the file size greylist.db? The program works 6
>>>    days, and already has a file size of 270 Mb.
>>>    What will happen next? =)
>>>    Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>    Try to use the time_out option, so greylist will purge the DB   
>> and no more than 10 Mbs will be used.
>
> Hi to all,
>
> Default time_out is 5 days, which is the delay after that some MTAs
> like sendmail don't try to send queued messages anymore.
>
> You can decrease time_out, but also keep in mind that some servers try
> to resend certain messages after 5 days or more. So, if you set, for
> example, time_out to 2 days, you'll lost certain messages coming from
> these servers.
>
> So it's useful to look at log file searching for such servers, and
> eventually whitelisting them if you think they are safe.
>
> Lucien
>

Lock for auto whitelisted IPs and count how often you find them.
There may be some IPs of MX-Servers of lage domains that you whant
to whitelist.

Michael




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