Milter-greylist

Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> wrote:

> a few hours ago milter-greylist died on one of our servers:
> 
>       milter-greylist: spamd socket failed: Too many open files
>       milter-greylist: ACL evaluation failure
>       milter-greylist: mkstemp("/var/milter/mgrey.db-000098ss") failed:
Too many open files
> 
> I raised the limits but I'd still like to know if milter-greylist is
> really supposed to die in such a case?

milter-greylist is in the situation where the database cannot be dumped.
Shall we ignore that?
 
> Also, I saw this after starting milter-greylist again: 
>       milter-greylist: unknown token ":" line 19202, skipping 
>       milter-greylist: dump error at line 19202: syntax error 
(...)
> The problem were some sender-addresses like `ab@cd@...'.

The dump file parser is more strict that the code that stores tuples, so
some tuple are rejected on reload. This is harmless.

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