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Re: [milter-greylist] Removal of autowhitelist by another program or milter

2009-05-14 by Petar Bogdanovic

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:26:24AM +0100, Delahunty, Mark wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list. I just installed milter-greylist to test it out
> and it looks like a brilliant way to reduce the amount of rubbish
> flooding our mail servers.
> 
> Here's my setup:
> 
> sendmail with 2 milters:
> 
> Milter #1: milter-greylist with an acl like this:
> 
>       # greylist if IP is listed in RBL, else whitelist
> 	racl greylist list "grey users" dnsrbl "FIRSTDNSBL" delay 2h
> 	racl greylist list "grey users" dnsrbl "OTHERDNSBL" delay 2h
> 	racl whitelist default
> 
> Milter #2: mimedefang (scans mail using clamav and spamassassin)
> 
> 
> What I'm thinking of doing is this: If a mail gets past milter-greylist
> and then spamassassin finds the mail has a virus, or a high spam score,
> remove its autowhitelist entry in milter-greylist. Does doing this sound
> reasonable and is there a way to do it? 

Move the spamd-check into milter-greylist (man greylist.conf -> spamd) and
you won't have this problem.  Then you'll also be able to block obvious
spam before it even gets accepted by the MTA (reject after DATA).



   Petar Bogdanovic

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