Does this somehow has to do with the fdescfs
filesystem that has to be mounted?
Are you by any chance using this on a non-OpenBSD OS?
Yes, FreeBSD. I remember when I upgraded spamd once during it's 3.x era,
it suddenly started to complain about missing fdescfs and refused to
start so I had to mount that in FreeBSD even though I only ran spamd in
blacklisting mode only. This time I didn't even try to run it without
fdescfs... still interested to know how fdescfs is used in combination
with spamd or is that referred to in grey.c?
Get some sleep then, it should be clearer.
A couple of caffeine pills and a glass of coke makes wonders. Dropped
the coffee 10 years ago because it killed my stomach ;-)
Can I enter "fake" email addresses
here and if a GREY host happens to send a mail to this fake address,
that host gets blacklisted?
Yes.
How big is the chance that it would try a fake random address
I enter here...?
High when you use an address that spammers already know about.
This piece fell into place now thanks to Peter Hansteen's post. I love
it already...
When you greylist, you just need to redirect all traffic from
addresses not in spamd-white to spamd. PF doesn't need to know
whether that's "currently subject to greylisting" or "on a
blacklist"
Yes, this was the first mental obstacle to overcome but I managed to do
that. I was just curious to know what happened then, when spamd was hit
by requests from both black- and grey-listed hosts as well as unknown
hosts. But I understand now that spamd tells them apart with the help of
that internal list I can't see anywhere... :-)
Thanks again all of you who have answered my questions.
/Morgan
