Milter-greylist

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:44:09AM +0100, Michael Menge wrote:
> >signal handling is forbidden by the milter API. We have a callback on exit,
> >but AFAIK that does not work if you get a deadly signal.
> Is there a SIGNAL which is not "deadly" and will call the atexit callback?

It does not change anything is the signal is not fatal: we cannot catch 
it anyway. The only way to solve that problem is to find a signal that
is catched by libmilter and where the signal handler calls exit().

> >If we want to remote control milter-greylist dumping, we need to have
> >a socket control. The easiest way is to reuse the MX sync protocol and 
> >add a dump command. That would be easy.
> This may be a work around, but you need a telnet connection to tell 
> milter-greylist to dump his db

Not nescessarily, we could have a command line tool that does just that.
something such as:
mgctl 127.0.0.1 dump

> With about 180.000 eMails per Day like oure site this may be a problem.
> If you add a dump and exit funktion to MX sync there could be some 
> security problems.

Oh, you mean a rogue client requesting continous dumps? Then it's time to
use RSA keys...

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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