Why can spamdyke automatically delete old graylist entries?
spamdyke doesn’t automatically delete old graylist entries because it doesn’t run as a daemon. In other words, spamdyke doesn’t run constantly on the server. It only runs while a message is being received. If spamdyke suddenly decided to clean up the graylist directory, it would have to do that work while receiving an incoming email message. If your graylist directory is large, the cleanup could cause a large enough delay to bounce the message. Also, how is spamdyke to decide when to cleanup? Because a new spamdyke process is started for each incoming connection and those processes don’t communicate with each other, there’s a good chance multiple spamdyke instances would attempt to cleanup the directory at the same time. That would delay multiple incoming messages and place an unnecessary load on the server.
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