Thanks for also replying directly. Since I cleared <nospamd> override table in pf, I am no longer receiving emails from misc.
> >I wasn't receiving email, from lists.openbsd.org and also from my > >work email address, until I added the respective smtp servers to > >the whitelist table in pf. > > >I could see them in the greylist when I typed spamdb. > > And how many attempts were listed? Was there any whitelist entries > when you checked? How long had it been since the email was sent and > you still hadn't received it? Some emails did not get through at all. I didn't check for whitelist entries or number of attempts at the time. > >Yes. I did misunderstand the spamd log entry about deletion. > > >Though I would not bother playing with settings if the expected > >emails were being received. > > The default graylist settings are almost certainly the only thing > definitively not causing your problems. And the way you tweaked > them were more likely to completely break things. Ok, I have returned the greylist settings to default now and I will go through the pf log and try find out why lists.openbsd.org is once again not making it to my inbox. > >I will go ahead and flush the spamdb database, and the pf tables > >and start over with default everything, no whitelist pf entries. > > That almost certainly will *not* help. The only real entries that > cause problems are TRAPPED entries. GREY entries mean the sender is > partway through getting whitelisted. If you delete the entries, you > set them back to square one. And since they have been backing off > on trying, the odds are much greater that the sending side will give > up. I am not trying to "help", I am reproducing the problem by reverting to the original conditions. Now it's the weekend, I have time to spend on solving it. > >This time I will sit on my hands and wait. Maybe I was not > >being patient enough. > > With greylisting, that is usually the case. Once it has been > running for a while, most things have no delays, but until a sender > has been whitelisted by getting through the greylisting process, you > will have probably an hour delay. I restarted spamd and flushed all the pf tables almost 10 hours ago now. Still nothing from lists.openbsd.org. > >When you say I misconfigured my setup, what do you mean? > >What else is there to spamd other than adding it to rc.conf.local > >and a few pf rules? > > The pf rules are important. You get them wrong and it doesn't work. The spamd pf rules I am using are simply uncommented from the default OpenBSD pf.conf file. I will audit pf rules and ensure I don't have other rules interfering with spamd. > >Seriously though, if I have to keep manually adding smtp servers > >to a whitelist, I will run in blacklist only mode. > > Generally you don't need to, but there *are* misbehaving setups out > there, and if you never monitor your email server, they won't get > through. > > A quick google search turns up > http://www.greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml, which can help you > pre-populate entries if you can't be bothered. Thanks for googling that one for me. I must have a misconfiguration. My apologies for dumping on the list, wasting peoples time etc.
