Milter-greylist

Cyril Guibourg <cg+milter-greylist@...> wrote:

> Which is right. Imho, we could consider getting dump_lex.l less pointy head
> so that such line would be safely ignored at startup.
> 
> Another way, when performing the dump, we could perform some sanity check
> on mail addresses.
> 
> Opinions ?

The third solution it to simply reject ill-formated address and the
fourth solution is to avoid adding them to the greylist (which means
thay will be temporary rejected forever). I wonder why sendmail accepts
addresses that don't conform to the standards.

IMO the choice is between really accepting ill-formatted addresses, or
really rejecting them with a permanent failure. Rejecting at dump time
or temp-failing forever seems a bad choice.

milter-greylist job's is to do greylisting, not to do some address
sanity-checks, so I'd be in favor of making dump_lex.l capable of
reloading any address that sendmail can accept. But is it possible?

If it's not, then we should reject at once, it makes no sence to
greylist something we consider bad enough to be ignored at dump reload
time. 
 
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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