Milter-greylist

If I had my wish for a hook into mgl, I'd want some sort of "callback" 
where I can implement a server to answer questions about whitelisting or 
denial.  I guess it would be a sort of mini-milter inside mgl, but I 
find the milter spec very difficult to implement.  Some very simple 
protocol like:

mgl: from=myname@...;host=xxxxx;etc
server: reject or delay or dontdelay etc.

That way you could make a server that doesn't add to the complexity of 
mgl, but can make it much more versatile.

Just my thoughts.

Thanks.


Michael Mansour wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I've been requested by some people to have milter greylist
> > automatically add address book names to its whitelist. Since I
> > don't have access to client address books on my server, I'm planning
> > on scanning IMAP databases for addresses. Any address that appears
> > in a sent folder or in a receipt folder other than Junk for longer
> > than a few days will get added to a whitelist in greylist.conf.
> >
> > Is there an easier way to do this?
>
> The easiest way would be to allow recipients to have access to a web 
> page and
> add sender addresses themselves. The developer (Emmanuel) has a system in
> place which does this already I believe, but it's based on custom scripts.
>
> I do hope at some stage this year to build a web interface to 
> milter-greylist,
> the issue isn't getting it done (relatively easy) just finding the 
> time I can
> sit down and do it.
>
> I've been thinking along these lines for some time now, to allow the web
> interface to add/remove whitelist/blacklist entries by people with 
> accounts,
> but for this to work I'd need to have milter-greylist support "include"
> statements in the main greylist.conf file so I could use something like:
>
> include greylist.whitelist.conf
> include greylist.blacklist.conf
> include greylist.spf.conf
> include greylist.rbl.conf
> include greylist.country.conf
> include greylist.greylist.conf
>
> etc in it while allowing easy manipulation of the respective files. I 
> think I
> raised an "include" file system some time back when I started to think 
> about
> the web interface side of things, but without actually sitting down and
> working on it there's no reason yet to ask for it.
>
> > Also, I currently don't use SPF whitelisting. Maybe that will
> > waylay the need for complex whitelisting. I want to use it, but
> > haven't gotten to updating yet. I've read that it only has 10% to
> > 20% adoption, so it may not give me such a big benefit, other than
> > being part of the cause I guess.
>
> I use the spf facility to reject messages at the MTA. Before using it 
> so much
> SPF:Fail trash would come through, after using it, rejects at the MTA 
> meant no
> more came through with Fails, and I've never had even one complaint about
> rejecting that SPF:Fail'ed mail.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
>
> > Thanks.
> >
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