Milter-greylist

All,

I just spent an hour trying to explain greylisting to one of my end-users 
(I greylist against APEWS)

I am registering the above domain name for the usage as follows:

1) Placement of a page to document what greylisting is.

2) Placement of a page to document known MTA's and organizations which may 
have troubles sending to greylisted servers -- to include things like 
misconfigured setups, etc.

3) Hosting of a DNSWL, that people can (with manual review) opt themselves 
into, such that their mailserver will be bypassed by milter-greylist's 
DNSBL support.

Questions on the submission form will include:

1) Reason your server does not retry

2) Mail server versions (optional).

3) IP addresses.

4) Other strategies in play (SPF/DomainKeys/DKIM)

5) Outbound envelope domains.

6) Expected fix date for the issue (i.e. I'll accept an answer of "Never" 
but it's nice to know that this is going to continue to be a problem).

I would of course also provide links to the milter-greylist official site, 
links to RFC2821 and RFC821, as well as to other greylist implementations 
(Anthony Howe's Milter-Gris, DCC, etc).

Is there anyone who would be interested in contributing some content to 
this site -- FAQ's, etc?  I'd also welcome some testing of the zonefile 
format -- I'm hosting this with standard BIND, not any special RBLDNSd, so 
the goal is to write some sort of script to handle the conversion from 
database, to text-based zonefile and standard text list (which can be 
fetched into a normal greylist config without the RBL support and pulled 
in via INCLUDES).  Needless to say the parsing of something like, say, a 
/29's worth of whitelist into a zonefile is an interesting trick.

I also plan to release all the code as public.

It should be a day or so before the domain itself is up, but I'm going to 
initially-populate the zonefile (white.lightgreylist.org in a few minutes) 
-- you should be able to poll it from ns.gushi.org and ns2.gushi.org.

Any feedback on this thought?  Everything from "It's a terrible idea, you 
suck, here's why" (and it's that last part that's important)...to "here's 
how I can help" would be appreciated.

-Dan

--

"If you aren't going to try something, then we might as well just be
friends."

"We can't have that now, can we?"

-SK & Dan Mahoney,  December 9, 1998

--------Dan Mahoney--------
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