Re: [exim] greylisting

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Author: Oliver Egginger
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To: Jeanne Schock
CC: Exim User's Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] greylisting
You have to implement an additional state machine, which coexists in
front of your MTA. For doing this you need a database (mysql for
example) where you can store a triple of ip address, sender address and
recipient address for incomming connections.

regards
oliver



Am Mi, den 19.01.2005 schrieb Jeanne Schock um 16:17:
> Hi,
>
> I'm somewhat new to Exim. I'm working on an Exim configuration for a mailhub design.
> I have a number of ACL's working fine on a test FreeBSD machine. However, I am still
> working on implementing greylisting. On the net I found 4 or 5 different approaches to
> greylisting, but I'm not sure what is the best practice. I'm interested in a simple but
> smart design. The production platform will ultimately be Suse, and we will have at least 2
> redundant servers. I would appreciate any comments from people who have successfully implemented
> greylisting on any platform. Is the easiest approach to just write a simple custom perl script?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion,
>
> Jeanne