Milter-greylist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:milter-
> greylist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Venezia
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:19 AM
> To: milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Is greylisting still a valid technique?
> 
> 
> 
> Since my previous message to the list this morning has apparently been
> lost somewhere, yes:
> 
> root@mx ~]# grep -c "delayed for" /var/log/maillog
> 23231
> [root@mx ~]# grep -c "autowhitelisted" /var/log/maillog
> 658
> 
> Make sure you're looking for the right data.
> 

How is "delayed for" greater than "autowhitelisted"?  "delayed for"
indicates a previously unseen host that was delayed but then retried.
"autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen before.  I
wonder if this is related to the greylist delay, in my case 7m.  I can
imagine a relatively high delay setting might cause more hits on a "delayed
for" count where servers often retry before the countdown has expired.


Jason A. Bertoch
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