Re: [exim] Re: greylisting builtin to exim?

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Author: David Ward
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: greylisting builtin to exim?
I figure I'll throw in that sa-exim has a greylisting module for
SpamAssassin, so if you are already using SpamAssassin then it might
be worth a look at.


David
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On 3/22/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@???> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:58 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "DW" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@???> writes:
> >
> > DW> http://david.woodhou.se/eximconf/include/acl-greylist has such an
> > DW> example, although it's not wonderfully pretty.
> >
> > I don't think it looks all that bad, but I wonder if you see any
> > performance hit from using plain text files? I suppose next to
> > spamassassin it can't be that bad.
>
> I haven't measured, but I haven't noticed either. I don't actually end
> up greylisting that much mail -- much of it just gets rejected, and much
> of the rest either isn't suspicious enough to be greylisted or is from a
> known resender.
>
> But yes, I _really_ ought to switch it to use sqlite, or at least
> occasionally compact the known-resenders list into a cdb. If performance
> is a concern, there are definitely ways to improve it.
>
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