Milter-greylist

Michael Osten wrote:
> I posted about this a couple of weeks ago.  We are a large ISP and  
> receive approx. 8+ million emails a day.  We maintain a list of white- 
> listed that is around 6k entries at present.  The question was raised  
> as to why we have so many entries.  We have this many entries as we  
> have found that there are a lot of broken MTA's out there, and our  
> customers need to receive mail from legitimate hosts regardless of  
> the limitations of of the MTA (old Novell groupwise, misconfigured  
> Postfix, etc).
> 
> 
> We are seeing addresses being greylisted despite being whitelisted.
> 
> rb:/etc/mail# grep 216.139.107.5 greylist.conf
> acl whitelist addr 216.139.107.5
> 

Are you sure that whitelist statement occurs before your greylist statement(s)?

Order matters, as milter-greylist will scan from the start of the list and act
on the first ACL that matches.