Milter-greylist

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote:

> \ufffd
> 
> > -----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.

it's not true, it's logged even for the first time. So there is no 
indication that the host retried if you are not checking the interval 
value in the logfile.

> "autowhitelisted" should match on all hosts that have been seen before.

yes, and this is the way greylisting works. Autowhitelisted entry in the 
logfile indicates that the sender retried after greylisting period or was 
autowhitelisted before.

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