Re: [exim] greylisting

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] greylisting
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@???> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 17:19 +0100, Terry wrote:

[...]
>> ( using postgrey by the way ) .


> Ah, that explains it. Postgrey is one of the worst implementations of
> greylisting I've ever encountered.


Hello David,

Could you please tell me what's so bad about postgrey? I am also using it
using and I just do not get where it fails. (For reference I do know
why postgrey is smarter than greylistd. greylistd has no
--auto-whitelist-clients.)

> Why aren't you just using Exim's native capabilities?


At the time I was implementing greylisting the hand-built exim-acl
stuff either used flat files ($run /binecho >>) or was requiring
postgres or mysql. At that time these slolutions also were less smart
than postgrey.

> I'd suggest reading http://wiki.exim.org/SimpleGreylisting

[...]

Situation seems to have changed, though.

thanks, cu andreas

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