On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:47:38PM +0000, Matthew Wakeling wrote: > Let's face it - greylistd is a horrible little hack, with all sorts of > problems. It works for a few people (like me), most of the time, but it > is far from the wonderful one-step-install it should be. > > I dislike the way it keeps the database in memory, and has no safe > mechanism for committing changes to disc. I dislike the nasty auto exim > config altering script. I dislike how several options (like singleupdate, > see bug #502460) don't really seem to do what everyone thinks they do, > and none of the possible configurations do exactly what everyone wants. I > dislike the way MessageLabs fails to try my secondary MX when it gets a > greylisted response. Other people dislike the fact that other senders > *do* try the secondary host, bypassing the greylisting. I dislike the way > most of the options are extremely poorly documented. > > I don't have time at the moment to work on a proper replacement for > greylistd, however my feeling is that it should probably be part of the > main exim package (probably a configuration switched off by default), and > maybe sqlite is the way to go. As long as we are munging the exim config > file for our users, that's a disaster waiting to happen. > > Food for thought. Sorry I'm putting my foot in without actually offering > any help.
Not at all, you've expressed some of the concerns I already have, and have lend weight to the fact that maybe it's not really worth while maintaining the package. I also don't particularly care for greylisting per se, but provide it as an option for users. What I might do, then, is continue with some small maintenance updates (see what I've already done at <http://git.debian.org/?p=users/dom/greylistd.git> for example), then file a wishlist bug for the integration of a pure-exim solution. Once that exists, we can add a deprecation message to the greylistd package with a view to removing it. Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
