[PLUG] preferred greylisting software for postfix?

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Sat Apr 19 05:34:35 UTC 2008


Dan Young wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to add greylisting to a postfix mail server.  There seem be
>> many of choices, but for convenience I've narrowed my choices down to
>> the following:
>>
>> smtpd-policy/greylist.pl that comes with postfix
>> SQLgrey
>> greylistd
> 
> Be curious to know why postgrey didn't make the cut. Dead simple to  
> use. No SQL server required; I suppose SQLite would be OK, but  
> PostgreSQL or MySQL seem heavy for a 20 user mail server.
> 
> Greylistd looked like it's intended for Exim. Did I miss something?

I was trying to avoid installing an rpm of unknown pedigree. 
greylist.pl is in the postfix rpm, and the other two are both 
available from the epel repository.  If postgrey is the one to use, 
I'll look into creating my own package.

Thanks for the feedback!

galen



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