[exim] Re: greylisting builtin to exim?

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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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Temat: [exim] Re: greylisting builtin to exim?
Jeremy C. Reed <reed@???> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion of patching exim to add greylisting support
> (so outside programs are not needed)?


> I understand that exim can insert mysql (or postgres) records.


> But also needed would be a way for Exim to keep time and expire the
> greylisted entries. (Or is that already doable?)


Never done it myself, but google is helpful.
http://raw.no/personal/blog/tech/Debian/2004-03-14-15-55_greylisting
http://slett.net/spam-filtering-for-mx/exim-greylisting.html#exim-greylist-mysql

> Also, it would be interesting to have greylisting within exim so you could
> choose when it is used based on the dialog or host.


> Until then, an outside tool can expire entries.


> Any examples on doing a greylist within exim without SQL server (like a
> cdb, dbm, or sqlite)?

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I've been running greylistd
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/greylistd/greylistd_0.8.3.tar.gz
without major issue for more than 6 months on my personal MX. It is
using plain text files for storing the data.
             cu andreas
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