Spamass-milter vs milter-greylist

[Jack L. Stone]

Hello Dan & list:

I am running this environment:
FBSD-4.10-R
Sendmail-8.12.11
**milter-greylist-1.5.3 (not successfully)
milter_regex-1.5 (excellent for more knobs!)
spamass-milter-0.2.0_4
SpamAssassin-2.63_2
procmail-3.22_4

I have been following the "crashing/instability" threads with interest as I
reported this issue several months ago -- finally resorting to use of
DaemonTools to monitor/restart spamass-milter. I have updated to latest
spamass-milter-0.2.0_4 just recently and am hopeful it cures the problem.

I think I also asked (Dan I believe) if there was any problem with milters
getting along. This question was a result of not being able to get
milter-greylist to cooperate. I kept getting errors and message that
spamass-milter "was restarting" which meant to me that it was being killed
(indeed core dumps shown in log messages). Removing greylist returned all
to normal.

Have also changed the sequence of the milters -- same result. Not running
the greylist until I find a solution.

The greylist (it's also in the ports) is described at this URL:
http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/

When loading up greylist, all looks okay too, but errors start on the very
first message.
Here's the error which might mean more to someone else:

#######################################################################
Jul 10 07:00:01 sageweb sm-mta[91759]: i6AC01lU091759:
milter_read(spamassassin): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
Jul 10 07:00:01 sageweb sm-mta[91759]: i6AC01lU091759: Milter
(spamassassin): to error state
Jul 10 07:00:01 sageweb spamass-milter[91760]: Setting debug level to 0xa1
Jul 10 07:00:01 sageweb spamass-milter[91760]: smfi_register succeeded
Jul 10 07:00:01 sageweb spamass-milter[91760]: spamass-milter 0.2.0 starting
#######################################################################

I have considered trying other greylists, such as this one:
http://www.snert.com/Software/milter-gris/

....but, I can't find out if my Sendmail uses a Berkley #3 db.

It appears greylists are fairly new and perhaps too new, but I do see
others using greylisting and I sure do like the concept -- actually, I like
the sounds of milter-gris more because it's supposed to use existing
sendmail access db for the white/blacklist -- this makes a lot more sense
rather than always having to build a new one in a special format. Wish
SpamAssassin would do that.

Any feedback appreciated if you have a similar setup.

Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Administrator

Sage American
http://www.sage-american.com
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