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Re: milter-greylist resets to default

2007-02-20 by Ugo Bellavance

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, "Ugo Bellavance" <iolubik@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
>     We were experiencing this with 2.0.2 and we just upgraded to 3.0.1
> and we are still seeing it.
> 
>     I thought that milter-greylist was supposed to re-read its config
> file automatically and ajust (and I can see the reload log entry). 
> Should we come back to the old method of restarting milter-greylist
> after editing greylist.conf?  We have a few servers that  are MXSYNCs
> so what I usually do is edit the file on one server, then I run a
> script that
> 
> - does a milter-greylist -c
> - tests the return value
> - if it is not equal to 0, it exits with an error message
> - if it is zero it copies greylist.conf to the other servers
> - it does a milter-greylist -c on each other servers and tests the
> return value.
> 
> Is there something wrong with my procedure?

New info:

On some servers it comes back to the correct configuration after a few
seconds, but on other servers, it takes more than 2 minutes, which is
a lot.  We guess it depends on the load on the server.

I know we could re-compile with 1 min of delay to minimize the impact,
but if, for example, a host that is whitelisted in greyist.conf
happens to send an e-mail during this window where the config file is
ignored, it is not very good...

Any ideas?

If you need more info, I'll do what I can to provide it.

Regards,

Ugo

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