Milter-greylist

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:48:13 +0100
manu@... wrote:

MO> 
MO> Ivan F. Martinez <ml@...> wrote:
MO> 
MO> > MO> That's not really a bekreley DB related problem, you can do
MO> > MO> that with any backend, can't you?
MO> >
MO> > Yes, I'm just thinking about berkeley because as it is used by
MO> > sendmail, any machine where milter-greylist will be installed will
MO> > have the berkeley libs.
MO> 
MO> I'm not sure milter-greylist should use Berkeley DB.
MO> 
MO> Sendmail's databases are mostly read-only, and generated from text
MO> files. If you crash, it's not a problem: in the worst scenario you
MO> crashed during DB regeneration, and you just have to rebuild it.
MO> 
MO> milter-greylist is continously modifying its database. If you crash
MO> you can loose the database. The current code is trying hard to avoid
MO> database corruption on crashes, and moving to Berkeley DB will
MO> probably be a step backward on this front.


My idea is to use Berkeley on the big whitelist, not for dynamic part.
I'm testing a patch to access the db from sendmail and passing data to
milter.

The patch is available :		
http://www.saisp.br/ifm/patches/milter-greylist.c.patch

Also a m4 file to configure milter-greylist, and a sample Rule to get
data from access.db
http://www.saisp.br/ifm/patches/milter-greylist.m4

I'm accepting suggestions to make it better.


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