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Re: Mails are getting rejected and delayed too long time

2005-01-20 by eugene_kurmanin

Some stupid servers don't correctly reacted on the temporary error 
after RCPT.
Some do permanent error, some return temporary error message to user, 
but don't doing a new attempts to delivery message (brake SMTP 
standards!!) At sample electrolux.se have such stupid server.
Some lazy servers doing the new attempts after temporary errors only 
through 1 (CommuniGate Pro on default) and more hours!!! :(
You can add such servers to whitelist...

I recommend use such values in greylist.conf

quiet
subnetmatch /24
greylist 1m
autowhite 28d
dumpfreq 1h
timeout 36h

It's work fine. If sender repeat attepmt sending message to you after 
1 minute, all be fine. Spamers don't repeat that task. No reason for 
much greylist IMHO.

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, "roxpace_" <roxpace@w...> 
wrote:
> 
> I has setuped milter-greylist on my server and it works like a 
charm 
> except for some users, they are complaining that they can't send 
> emails to our server, instead they are getting rejecting emails 
> which is bad since they are using important servers and I dont 
wanna 
> blacklist them and I do not wanna manipulate the blacklist manually.
> 
> And some users are getting a very delaying on the email 
deliverance, 
> even up to 12 hours which is not good since we has set in the 
> greylist.conf a maximum time on 3h for delivery and normal delat on 
> 5 minutes.
> 
> Can anyone please let me know this please.
> 
> 1. What can be the reason to both things above ?
> 
> 2. How can I trace emails on the database to see whats going wrong ?
> 
> 3. How can I empty the blacklist and/or whitelist manually ?
> 
> Any other tip concering these things would be very much 
> appreciated :)
> 
> Sincerely
> /Roberth

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