Re: [exim] Auto-whitelist

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Author: Craig Jackson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Auto-whitelist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Chih-Cherng Chin
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:17 AM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Auto-whitelist
>
> On Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:26 AM, Craig Jackson wrote:
>
> > We use exim 4.62 with mysql. I'd like to set up whitelist that is
> > automatically updated with $recipients value when a user in
> our domain
> > sends out an email. The $recipients is a comma delimited
> list of the
> > recipients available during data acl. I see that it can be
> done using
> > the Perl but I was hoping not to have to use Perl for performance
> > reasons. Has anyone done this without using Perl?
>
> I have done something similiar without using embedded Perl
> while setting up greylisting. The sender and recipients of
> every outbound mail are stored in a DBM file. With the help
> of exim acl, recipients' reply would skip the greylisting
> automatically. It greatly reduces the number of ham mail
> deferred by greylisting.
>
> The way I do it is very simple:
>
> 1. Add "log_selector = +received_recipients" to the configure file, so
>     both the sender (default logged) and recipients will be 
> kept in mainlog.
> 2. A shell script, invoked by cron every 30 minutes, processes the
>     log and generates data pairs in suitable format, which 
> are then merged
>     with existing entries.  It also expires entries which are too old.

>
> In a word, I process it in batch. Performance is good, as
> the shell script never get my attention when I monitor the
> system. I believe you can do the same.
>
> Chih-Cherng Chin
>
>
> --


Thanks for your reply. That is a good idea. I'll try it.