Milter-greylist

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:57:07AM +1100, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 02:13:35PM +0200, manu@... wrote:
> > > Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Let's see how Sendmail headers look like when RDNS is not available.
> > > > We can then make that the default behaviour and add an option for
> > > > backward compatibility?
> > > 
> > > There are certainly people out of there that made scripts to parse
> > > milter-greylist log output. If you change the behaviour, this is nasty
> > > for them. IMO the default setting should be backaward compatibility.
> > 
> > Ok, I dug through some pieces of the sendmail code and did some 
> > tests on an emulated Ubuntu installation:  It seems that the way 
> > milter-greylist logs unresolvable clients is consistent with that of 
> > sendmail.
> > 
> > Sendmail, however, has not the same approach when it comes to 
> > received headers:
> > 
> > 	log (rdns):	relay=some.host.name. [1.2.3.4]
> > 	log (no-rdns):	relay=[5.6.7.8] [5.6.7.8]
> > 
> > 	hdr (rdns):	(some.host.name. [1.2.3.4])
> > 	hdr (no-rdns):	([5.6.7.8])
> > 
> > I think we should move that tiny piece of code into spamd.c and make 
> > the injected received header look like one from sendmail.  
> 
> Does this mean that you have to be running spamd to take advantage of that code?

Not [1]spamd but [2]spamd.  (man greylist.conf)



   Petar Bogdanovic



[1] http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/
[2] http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/spamd.html