Milter-greylist

Hi,

I just installed milter-greylist-1.6, and it is
running.  Two questions:

1. Is it good to use -L 24 option?  I notice that if
it is used, many emails will not be delayed, users
would be happy.  However, will that let some spam
mails escape from filtering?  Our users (the server
has not installed greylist) receive a lot spam mails
from xxx.yy@... everyday. If the -L 24 option is
used, will those junk mails go through easily?

2. For testing purpose, I deleted all entries in
greylist.db (a test system, total about 20 tuples).
Then, I send one email from my yahoo account to one
user in this testing system, no other emails from any
other systems.  After a few minutes, all deleted lines
are put back, exact like before, including entries for
other users.  Is it normal?  Does it have some
"auto-restore" feature?  If that is the case, will it
automatically "restore" some "bad entries" as a couple
of posts here about "corrupted" db file?

Thanks!

Harvey


		
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H Li <hvli@...> wrote:

> 1. Is it good to use -L 24 option?  

I don't know. I'm happy without it.
 
> 2. For testing purpose, I deleted all entries in
> greylist.db (a test system, total about 20 tuples).
> Then, I send one email from my yahoo account to one
> user in this testing system, no other emails from any
> other systems.  After a few minutes, all deleted lines
> are put back, exact like before, including entries for
> other users.  Is it normal?  Does it have some
> "auto-restore" feature?  If that is the case, will it
> automatically "restore" some "bad entries" as a couple
> of posts here about "corrupted" db file

The dump file is a... dump file! It's only re-readen by milter-greylist
at startup time. If you want to modify it and have milter-greylist
taking your modification into account (for debugging purpose), you must
stop milter-greylist while you make the change. 

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