Re: Is it Possible to NOT use client_ip?
Sean Conner <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:32:45 -0500
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It was thus said that the Great Rob Morin once stated: > My first post to this list, please be gentle... :) > > Is it possible to NOT consider the client_ip when using postgrey? > > My problem is we just switched to load balancing and the incoming emails > always seem like they come from the same IP address.... > > Would postgrey still be useful if it checked only the to and from ? Using my own greylist implementation [1], I ran two tests over 565,012 tuples [2]. The first one used the full [IP,sender,recipient] tuple using a 1s embargo timeout (otherwise, using realistic values and timings such a test would take a few days): Start: Thu Nov 29 17:08:21 2007 End: Thu Nov 29 17:10:59 2007 Running time: 2m 38s Requests: 565012 ... Tuples: 499846 Graylisted: 499846 Graylisted-Expired: 0 Whitelisted: 6945 Whitelisted-Expired: 0 Rerunning to ignore the IP address, but otherwise unchanged from the previous run: Start: Thu Nov 29 17:16:21 2007 End: Thu Nov 29 17:19:23 2007 Running time: 3m 2s Requests: 565012 ... Tuples: 499846 Graylisted: 499846 Graylisted-Expired: 0 Whitelisted: 6957 Whitelisted-Expired: 0 A few more, so it appears that you might be able to skip the IP address. -spc (Hope this helps some) [1] http://www.x-grey.com/ [2] Actual tuples seen on production servers while developing X-Grey.