Milter-greylist

Dear List Readers - 
 
I have run into a problem, possibly because of my noobiness with this
milter, but i installed this on my mail servers over the weekend, and it
does seem to do the trick...however i started experiencing a total lack
of mail delivery even though i manually whitelisted maillist domains,
etc, NOTHING was being delivered, except in very very small spurts. So,
i disabled it, turned it off, and removed it from the sendmail.cf and
restarted sendmail - THREE DAYS LATER, i am still seeing delays and
non-deliverability to my MXs. 
 
What did i do wrong? Has anyone else seen this? Anything i can do to fix
my problem? I have 2 users on my domain that have gotten very little of
their daily email and they are wondering where the hell it went, LOL...
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you in advance
Michael Weiner

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:14:57AM -0400, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> I have run into a problem, possibly because of my noobiness with this
> milter, but i installed this on my mail servers over the weekend, and it
> does seem to do the trick...however i started experiencing a total lack
> of mail delivery even though i manually whitelisted maillist domains,
> etc, NOTHING was being delivered, except in very very small spurts. So,

If nothing was delivered, check your mail log file (the one where
syslog puts mail.* entries) and see what happened to them. Neither
sendmail nor milter-greylist will just eat messages without reporting.

What about your greylist.db file - were entries added to the greylist
tuples, and later moved to the auto-whitelisted tuples ?

> i disabled it, turned it off, and removed it from the sendmail.cf and
> restarted sendmail - THREE DAYS LATER, i am still seeing delays and
> non-deliverability to my MXs. 

milter-greylist does not have any effect as soon as you take it 
out of sendmail's configuration. It's not possible that it affects
messages which are sent *after* disabling it.

When talking about non-deliverability - what does the error message
say that the original sender receives ?

mp.