Re: [exim] Adding a whitelist to greylist

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: Raphael Bauduin
CC: Exim ., Jasen Betts
Subject: Re: [exim] Adding a whitelist to greylist
exim -bh some-host-in-the-whitelist



On 16 June 2013 13:10, Raphael Bauduin <rblists@???> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Jasen Betts <jasen@???> wrote:
>
> > On 2013-06-13, Raphael Bauduin <rblists@???> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm working on a working greylisting setup, but it currently has some
> > > trouble with mail coming from gmail, because the different delivery
> > > attempts may use different IP addresses. that's why I wanted to add a
> > > whitelist check.
> > >
> > > To the defer directive (see bottom for the complete directive), I add
> the
> > > whitelist exception:
> > >
> > > !dnslists = list.dnswl.org
> > >
> > > and I also add an accept directive (I also tested with a warn
> directive)
> > >
> > >   accept  #or warn
> > >     domains      = +local_domains
> > >     dnslists      = list.dnswl.org
> > >     logwrite      = $sender_host_address is whitelisted

> >
> > which ACL is this in?
> >
>
> this is acl_check_rcpt
>
>
> > > When I send a mail from gmail, which is in the whitelist, I see this in
> > the
> > > logs:
> > > 2013-06-13 10:35:30 skip defer greylist (header) <...@gmail.com> for
> > ><...@...>.
> > > 2013-06-13 10:35:30 209.85.219.45 is whitelisted
> > >
> > > So the new config is applied, but no further processing of the mail
> > happens
> > > after that.
> >
> > perhaps there's something in rejectlog?
> >
>
> Nothing there.
>
> I have done further tests. I added this accept directive at the start of
> the act:
>
>   accept
>     domains      = +local_domains
>     dnslists      = list.dnswl.org
>     log_message      = $sender_host_address is whitelisted in rcpt check

>
> and the result is that... nothing happens.
>
> From my understanding, the dnswl includes the gmail servers as the
> greylisting is skipped if I add the condition that greylisting is done only
> if the sender ip is not in the dnswl list.
> So the accept directive should make the acl accept the messages from gmail,
> but that is apparently not the case. Am I misunderstanding something?
>
> thanks
>
> Raph
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