[Mimedefang] MySQL Greylisting: grey_old records

[Paul Murphy]

Todd,

>I'm assuming that this is supposed to happen when a whitelisted entry is 
>found in the database that has been there and not accessed for longer 
>than the time period defined by gdb_white (currently set to 30 days), but 
>I only implimented this setup earlier this morning with a brand new 
>database!  Does anybody have any ideas as to why this is happening on my 
>system already?  Or am I misunderstanding grey_old?

Are the addresses which show grey_old also addresses which have sent spam to you
today?  There is a feature in John's implementation which resets the greylist
status of any IP which has messages scoring over the grey_reset level, and the
way it does this (if I'm reading the code correctly) is to set the timestamp to
zero.  As a result, the next spam from them will come through and be classed as
grey_old.

The documentation of this implementation is better than any other I've seen, but
it does still leave something to be desired.

Best Wishes,

Paul.
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