> -----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.
