OT: milter-greylist before rbls?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 18:57 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike McMullen" <mlm at loanprocessing.net>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:31 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: milter-greylist before rbls?
> 
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>From: "Alexander Dalloz" <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
> >>
> >>Add
> >>
> >>FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl
> > 
> > Alexander, Thanks! -Mike
> > 
> 
> Maybe I spoke too soon on this working. I added the delay_checks (actually uncommented it)
> in the sendmail.mc file. I then ran make on it. Saw that sendmail.cf was indeed created. I then
> restarted my MailScanner and saw greylisting happening first. However, I am still seeing
> 553 reject messages. If I go back and grep through the maillog on the IP or server name 
> I don't see any greylisting entry.
> 
> What am I missing here?

The greylisting is presumably handling tuples of (sender, recipient,
source-IP). So the milter can't do the TEMPFAIL until RCPT TO: time. The
delay_checks feature also delays DNSBL checks until RCPT TO: time.
However, since the DNSBL checks are configured directly into sendmail's
configuration file, they're going to happen before the milter "sees" the
recipient address.

Just curious; why would you want this the other way around anyway?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>