Postgrey
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Postgrey can be used to enable greylisting for a Postfix mail server.
Installation
Install the postgrey package. To get it running quickly edit the Postfix configuration file and add these lines:
/etc/postfix/main.cf
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10030
Then start/enable the postgrey
service. Afterwards, reload the postfix
service. Now greylisting should be enabled.
Configuration
Configuration is done via editing the greylist.service
file. First copy it over to edit it.
# cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgrey.service /etc/systemd/system/
Now you can edit it. For example, to add automatic whitelisting (successful deliveries are whitelisted and don't have to wait any more), you could add the --auto-whitelist-clients=N
option and replace N
by a suitably small number (or leave it at its default of 5).
...actually, the preferred method should be the override:
cat /etc/systemd/system/postgrey.service.d/override.conf
[Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/postgrey --inet=127.0.0.1:10030 \ --pidfile=/run/postgrey/postgrey.pid \ --group=postgrey --user=postgrey \ --daemonize \ --greylist-text="Greylisted forĀ %%s seconds" \ --auto-whitelist-clients
Troubleshooting
If you specify --unix=/path/to/socket and the socket file is not created ensure you have removed the default --inet=127.0.0.1:10030 from the service file.
For a full documentation of possible options see perldoc postgrey
.