Re: Is it Possible to NOT use client_ip?
Rob Morin <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:31:17 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.greylist.user |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
What do i do to Postgrey to allow only sender and recipient and no IP? Or do i use x-grey with my postfix, i am confused a bit? Thanks Rob Morin Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Sean Conner wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Greylist-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/greylist-users >