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Re: [milter-greylist] Re: Learning mode

2005-12-07 by Dennis Willson

This would seem to also allow it to "learn" and allow all the Spammers that send to you while its in learn mode.

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> --- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Matt Kettler <mkettler@e...>
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>>Ugo Bellavance wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>  I know some implementations of greylisting allows for a "learning
>>>mode", in which no delays are caused, and the database is populating
>>>itself as it sees traffic going by.  Is there a way to do that with
>>>milter-greylist.
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>>Care to elaborate what exactly that does Ugo?
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>>Unless delays are introduced, there's no way of knowing if a
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> particular sending
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>>IP ever retries, so there's nothing to populate with.
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>>Perhaps this has to do with greylists that pre-emptively
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> auto-whitelists based
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>>on outbound mail? (milter-greylist doesn't do this AFAIK) For
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> systems with that
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>>feature the monitor-only state would make a lot of sense.
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> Here is a message that is explaining the concept:
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> http://lists.tummy.com/pipermail/vpostmaster/2005-October/000105.html
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