[Mimedefang] Greylisting database question

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, March 22, 2004 2:10 PM -0500 Todd Aiken <taiken at ubishops.ca> 
wrote:

> I just implimented on our site the greylisting example as posted to the
> list by Steven Rocha, which seems to be working.  I notice though that
> the  filename of where the database is stored is
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.greylistdb, but I have /var/spool/MIMEDefang
> mounted as a ramdisk.  I assumed that this isn't a good thing, because
> whenever my system is reset the database would be lost and would have to
> be rebuilt, so I created a new directory off of /var/spool and stored the
> database file there.  Was that the right thing to do?

I created /etc/mail/mimedefang with ownership defang.defang and put the DB 
in there. Another possibility is /var/lib/mimedefang, since FHS specifies 
/var/lib as a place to keep persistent state.