[BlueOnyx:03972] Re: greylisting set to defer for 5 minutes, takes hours

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Dory" <jdory at nomealaska.org>
To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:01 AM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:03968] greylisting set to defer for 5 minutes,takes hours


> I've got a third party milter-greylist installed and the config file is
> set to defer the message for 5 minutes. The ACL shows in the maillog as
> deferring for 5 minutes. But it takes over an hour and in some cases
> longer for it to finally accept a message. I'm about to toss it out the
> window if not that it does stop a bunch of spam that I would think
> spamassassin and the RBLs would stop without it.
>
> It seems it could be that the sending server may not try to resend the
> message until an hour later, but in the maillog, I do see continuous
> rejections of the subject email before it eventually is allowed in.
>
> thanks, Jim
>
> -- 
> Jim Dory
> Engineering
> City of Nome
> PO Box 281
> 102 Division St.
> Nome, AK 99762
> 907.443.6604
>
> http://www.nomealaska.org
>
>

Jim

Many mail servers will not try again for a few hours. So, you defer it for 5 
minutes, but they do not try again for an hour. Then when they do try again, 
maybe it is from a different IP address,  so the timer starts all over 
again.


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Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net