Re: [Sqlgrey-users] postgrey2sqlgrey data conversion tool ?

[Lionel B. <lio...@bo...>]

Yann Cezard wrote the following on 23.05.2008 14:06 :
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there was any tool to migrate postgrey BDB data
> to an SQLGrey database ?
>   

SQLgrey was initially a fork of postgrey, but there's nearly no original 
code left. The greylisting process uses it's own algorithm and data 
formats so migrating postgrey data might not be straightforward.

> I can still try to code one myself, but I don't want to loose time
> if someone already does.
>   

I'll simply switch from postgrey to SQLgrey without migrating data. I 
recently installed SQLgrey for a customer : the auto-whitelists where 
~50% effective in 3 hours and ~80% in 24 hours, with a limit reached at 
around 85-90%. So if you time it right, installing the greylisting 
during low-usage periods, nobody even notices the change. This is even 
more true since the mail reliability went down the sink thanks to 
aggressive webmail services dropping mails instead of bouncing them 
(*cough* hotmail *cough*): people slowly get used to low-quality service 
and often assume there's a problem at one of the two end of the pipe and 
work around it without bothering admins :-/.

For the case above, the only end-user reaction was : "What did you do? 
Most of us didn't receive any SPAM since yesterday!".

Lionel