postfwd as milter-greylist alternative?

[iliaross]

Hello Jamie!

Since milter-greylist being abandoned, I believe we should consider an alternative tool. What do you think about postfwd? It's written in Perl, available in all repos, and seems to integrate just fine with Postfix.

https://www.postfwd.org/ratelimits.html

[jcameron]

Sure, that seems reasonable. Does it have all the same functionality though?

[iliaross]

postfwd is very flexible, but it’s not a direct one-to-one replacement. I haven’t dug deep, but it looks like it can mimic greylisting and do much more. However, we’ll need to manually configure it to replicate all the behavior that milter-greylist provided out of the box...

[itsTheFae]

Would you mind providing some reference / clarification on the abandonment of milter-greylist?

I saw this while looking into an issue with the milter service and it has me thinking I should just save myself the trouble and start looking at the alternatives instead...

Thanks

[iliaross]

Would you mind providing some reference / clarification on the abandonment of milter-greylist?

Yes, please see this:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/milter-greylist

It is only available in the testing repository and cannot be installed in a standard installation.

[shoulders]

off-topic is https://www.rspamd.com/ an alternative that should be considered as this i think has a greylist in it.