Milter-greylist

On Friday, May 27th 2005 at 14:46 -0400, quoth John Goggan:

=>
=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> On Friday, May 27th 2005 at 15:49 -0000, quoth John Goggan:
=>> 
=>> =>Has anyone done anything with doing greylisting only during certain 
=>> =>times of the day?
=>> 
=>> This may be silly, but why not use a cron job to just shut the milter off?
=>
=>This may be silly, but I suggested exactly that slightly further down in my 
=>message.  Specifically, it read:
=>
=>"...as a temporary workaround method, it should work just to do cron jobs to 
=>start and stop the milter, correct?  With the milter stopped, sendmail will 
=>just process the mail normally, correct?"
=>
=>Thanks though!  :)
=>
=>  - John...

Actually you can do better with the cronjob. Have two sendmail.cf files. 
One that came from an mc with the milter and one that came from the mc 
file without the milter. Then the cronjob doesn't have to start and stop 
the milter, it just does a kill -1 to the pidof sendmail

kill -1 $(pidof sendmail | awk '{print $1}')

Does that make it more attractive?

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