Milter-greylist

manu@... wrote:

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>>4. The whitepaper also suggests a record expire time of 36 days. Which
>>expirery times do folks use? The defaults configuration file has three
>>days only. Probably this is due to the fear of too much memory consumption?
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> Also because most mail servers will give up after retrying for 3 or 5
> days.
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I think there is some confusion here. 36 days is the recommended 
expiration for the auto-whitelist.
Here at LAAS, we use 3 days for the greylist timeout and 5 weeks for the 
white list. This leads us to a ~100k lines database with approximatly
50k auto-whitelist entries and 50k greylist entries.
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					Matthieu