Milter-greylist

When manually stopping the milter-process I expected that memory-held
entries are dumped to greylist.db, but modification timestamp of
greylist.db didn�t change. Am I expecting too much? (I use 3.0rc5)

best regards
Hans

At Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:14:01 -0000,
hwdahm wrote:
a> 
> When manually stopping the milter-process I expected that memory-held
> entries are dumped to greylist.db, but modification timestamp of
> greylist.db didn´t change. Am I expecting too much? (I use 3.0rc5)
> 
> best regards
> Hans 
> 
Roughly speaking, it is libmilter's bug. Milter-greylist dies or
crashes before or during the final dump. Set "dumpfreq 0" until
sendmail 8.13.9.

AIDA Shinra <shinra@...> wrote:

> Roughly speaking, it is libmilter's bug. Milter-greylist dies or
> crashes before or during the final dump. Set "dumpfreq 0" until
> sendmail 8.13.9.

Well, dumpfreq 0 is almost unusable with on a really busy server...

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Hi, How to reduce the file size greylist.db? The program works 6 days, and already has a file size of 270 Mb. What will happen next? =) Thanks

Hi,
How to reduce the file size greylist.db? The program works 6 days, and already has a file size of 270 Mb.
What will happen next? =)
Thanks

Try to use the time_out option, so greylist will purge the DB and no more than 10 Mbs will be used.

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Eduardo, thank you! 2008/7/28 Eduardo Casarero  ... Eduardo, thank you! 2008/7/28 Eduardo Casarero 

Eduardo, thank you!

2008/7/28 Eduardo Casarero <eduardo.casarero@informaticaavanzada.com.ar>

Kirill Bychkov escribió:

Hi,
How to reduce the file size greylist.db? The program works 6 days, and already has a file size of 270 Mb.
What will happen next? =)
Thanks

Try to use the time_out option, so greylist will purge the DB and no more than 10 Mbs will be used.
    

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Quoting Lucien GENTIS <lucien.gentis@...>:

> Kirill Bychkov a écrit :
>> Eduardo, thank you!
>>
>>
>>    Kirill Bychkov escribió:
>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>    How to reduce the file size greylist.db? The program works 6
>>>    days, and already has a file size of 270 Mb.
>>>    What will happen next? =)
>>>    Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>    Try to use the time_out option, so greylist will purge the DB   
>> and no more than 10 Mbs will be used.
>
> Hi to all,
>
> Default time_out is 5 days, which is the delay after that some MTAs
> like sendmail don't try to send queued messages anymore.
>
> You can decrease time_out, but also keep in mind that some servers try
> to resend certain messages after 5 days or more. So, if you set, for
> example, time_out to 2 days, you'll lost certain messages coming from
> these servers.
>
> So it's useful to look at log file searching for such servers, and
> eventually whitelisting them if you think they are safe.
>
> Lucien
>

Lock for auto whitelisted IPs and count how often you find them.
There may be some IPs of MX-Servers of lage domains that you whant
to whitelist.

Michael




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