OT: milter-greylist before rbls?

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Sat Aug 20 23:26:39 UTC 2005


Am So, den 21.08.2005 schrieb Mike McMullen um 0:46:

> I have greylisting running an a mail server that I also use rbls on. I'm running sendmail on an FC4
> box.
> 
> I've placed the necessary stuff for milter-greylist in my sendmail.mc. I've place that stuff ahead
> of the dnsbl entries.

In this specific case the order both configurations appear in the .mc
file does not matter.

> I thought that greylisting would happen before rbl testing. However watching my logs I see
> rejects from spamhause and spamcop showing up. Searching the log on the ip address
> used I don't see any greylisting messages for that address. However greylisting is
> working because I see messages showing greylisting going on.
> 
> Long story short, how do I getmilter-greylist invoked ahead of rbl queries?

Add

FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl

to sendmail.mc. That should let the milter for greylisting coming into
place (milter code xxfi_envfrom is called at MAIL FROM:<sender> and
dnsbl checks delayed until RCPT TO:<recipient> will follow). 

> Mike

Alexander


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