[PLUG] preferred greylisting software for postfix?

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Sat Apr 19 15:28:38 UTC 2008


Another vote for postgrey.  It stops perhaps 98% of the incoming
crud before spamassassing has to deal with it (and postfix on my
Mail Transport Agent firewall machine is getting about 1500 spam
attempts per hour).  

There is one postfix/firefox enhancement that I would like; perhaps
it is already out there and I haven't found it yet.

Some websites have some kind of email confirmation - "enter your
email address into this form and we will continue doing business
after you confirm an email we will send to you".

If the web page is a domain that postgrey hasn't seen before, it 
may be an hour before I actually see the email confirmation.  Unless
I add that domain to /etc/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients.local
on my MTA/firewall machine before I click "send" on the web form.
For me, that is an ssh login and a text edit.  Annoying.

Wouldn't it be cool if firefox had a plugin that recognized that
my email address was being sent out on a form, and it automagically
sent the domain up to the MTA/firewall to get added to the whitelist
(after a confirmation popup with the proposed domain in an edit
window)?  Besides the plugin, that would also require some sort
of listening process running on the firewall.  These two bits of
software are a bit beyond my meager programming ability.  

That would remove the last minor annoyance of greylisting for me.
Postgrey doesn't have it, but nobody else does either, AFAIK.  

Keith

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