Milter-greylist

I has setuped milter-greylist on my server and it works like a charm 
except for some users, they are complaining that they can't send 
emails to our server, instead they are getting rejecting emails 
which is bad since they are using important servers and I dont wanna 
blacklist them and I do not wanna manipulate the blacklist manually.

And some users are getting a very delaying on the email deliverance, 
even up to 12 hours which is not good since we has set in the 
greylist.conf a maximum time on 3h for delivery and normal delat on 
5 minutes.

Can anyone please let me know this please.

1. What can be the reason to both things above ?

2. How can I trace emails on the database to see whats going wrong ?

3. How can I empty the blacklist and/or whitelist manually ?

Any other tip concering these things would be very much 
appreciated :)

Sincerely
/Roberth

roxpace_ <roxpace@...> wrote:

> Can anyone please let me know this please.
> 
> 1. What can be the reason to both things above ? 
> 2. How can I trace emails on the database to see whats going wrong ?

Please post the headers of a mail that had problems. It's difficult to
say what went wrong without looking at this. 
 
> 3. How can I empty the blacklist and/or whitelist manually ?

You can whitelist in the config file for any recipient, IP or DNS
address.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

Some stupid servers don't correctly reacted on the temporary error 
after RCPT.
Some do permanent error, some return temporary error message to user, 
but don't doing a new attempts to delivery message (brake SMTP 
standards!!) At sample electrolux.se have such stupid server.
Some lazy servers doing the new attempts after temporary errors only 
through 1 (CommuniGate Pro on default) and more hours!!! :(
You can add such servers to whitelist...

I recommend use such values in greylist.conf

quiet
subnetmatch /24
greylist 1m
autowhite 28d
dumpfreq 1h
timeout 36h

It's work fine. If sender repeat attepmt sending message to you after 
1 minute, all be fine. Spamers don't repeat that task. No reason for 
much greylist IMHO.

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, "roxpace_" <roxpace@w...> 
wrote:
> 
> I has setuped milter-greylist on my server and it works like a 
charm 
> except for some users, they are complaining that they can't send 
> emails to our server, instead they are getting rejecting emails 
> which is bad since they are using important servers and I dont 
wanna 
> blacklist them and I do not wanna manipulate the blacklist manually.
> 
> And some users are getting a very delaying on the email 
deliverance, 

> even up to 12 hours which is not good since we has set in the 
> greylist.conf a maximum time on 3h for delivery and normal delat on 
> 5 minutes.
> 
> Can anyone please let me know this please.
> 
> 1. What can be the reason to both things above ?
> 
> 2. How can I trace emails on the database to see whats going wrong ?
> 
> 3. How can I empty the blacklist and/or whitelist manually ?
> 
> Any other tip concering these things would be very much 
> appreciated :)
> 
> Sincerely
> /Roberth

Thanks for the configuration tip, any other like that is very 
welcome :)

But still I would appreciate if anyone could tell me how to debug 
emails coming in to our system and manually handle the blacklist and 
whitelist database, like see what is in there and delete specific 
records on so.

Sincerely
/Roberth

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, "eugene_kurmanin" <ubr@o...> 
wrote:
> 
> Some stupid servers don't correctly reacted on the temporary error 
> after RCPT.
> Some do permanent error, some return temporary error message to 
user, 
> but don't doing a new attempts to delivery message (brake SMTP 
> standards!!) At sample electrolux.se have such stupid server.
> Some lazy servers doing the new attempts after temporary errors 
only 
> through 1 (CommuniGate Pro on default) and more hours!!! :(
> You can add such servers to whitelist...
> 
> I recommend use such values in greylist.conf
> 
> quiet
> subnetmatch /24
> greylist 1m
> autowhite 28d
> dumpfreq 1h
> timeout 36h
> 
> It's work fine. If sender repeat attepmt sending message to you 
after 
> 1 minute, all be fine. Spamers don't repeat that task. No reason 
for 
> much greylist IMHO.
> 
> --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, "roxpace_" <roxpace@w...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > I has setuped milter-greylist on my server and it works like a 
> charm 
> > except for some users, they are complaining that they can't send 
> > emails to our server, instead they are getting rejecting emails 
> > which is bad since they are using important servers and I dont 
> wanna 
> > blacklist them and I do not wanna manipulate the blacklist 
manually.
> > 
> > And some users are getting a very delaying on the email 
> deliverance, 
> > even up to 12 hours which is not good since we has set in the 
> > greylist.conf a maximum time on 3h for delivery and normal delat 
on 
> > 5 minutes.
> > 
> > Can anyone please let me know this please.
> > 
> > 1. What can be the reason to both things above ?
> > 
> > 2. How can I trace emails on the database to see whats going 
wrong ?

> > 
> > 3. How can I empty the blacklist and/or whitelist manually ?
> > 
> > Any other tip concering these things would be very much 
> > appreciated :)
> > 
> > Sincerely
> > /Roberth