Well I think I might have my own answer to my question. It *appears* as though the messages that weren't getting graylisted were sent using tls.
On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Anthony Ercolano wrote: > Please pardon me, if this comes through twice... > > I've been using spamdyke for 6 months or so on my server without graylisting > and with no problems. > > A few days ago I decided to add graylisting. It seems to be working fine. > However, it exhibits a behavior that is confusing me. > > I use tmda on the mail server. (This means that I generally create email > address specific to a sender. e.g. When I gave an email address to my cable > company to send me bill notifications it was of the form > [email protected]) > > I purchased a game that required an email address for activation purposes. I > created a specific address for the game company and used it during the > signup. The service was then supposed to send me an activation email. I > figured it would take at least 5 minutes (graylist-min-secs) to see the > email. No! The email came right through! The left hand side of the email > address that the activation email was sent to was nowhere to be found in the > domain dir. I recieve quite a few daily emails from various organizations, > all sent to different email address of the form > [email protected]. I still still seem to be getting > all of these daily emails. However not all of these addresses are showing up > in the domain dir. > > I then tried an experiment and sent myself an email using the game specific > email address from my gmail account. Now, the left hand side of the address > showed up in the domain directory. > > I have the feeling I'm missing something about graylisting. Any ideas? > > Thank you for your time, > Tony > > Config: > Linux kernel 2.6.30.9 > An up to date gentoo using profile: default/linux/x86/10.0 > netqmail-1.06 > TMDA/1.1.12 > Spamdyke 4.0.10 (the most current stable gentoo ebuild) > > my spamdyke.conf is as follows: > > graylist-level=always-create-dir > graylist-dir=/dyke/gray > graylist-max-secs=1209600 > graylist-min-secs=300 > graylist-exception-ip-file=/dyke/gray-exception/exceptio-ip > smtp-auth-level=none > relay-level=no-check > local-domains-file=/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts > max-recipients=<some small number> > log-level=error > dns-blacklist-entry=zen.spamhaus.org > reject-empty-rdns > reject-unresolvable-rdns > > The exception ip files simply has a list of secure servers that I control. >
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