John Magolske <listm...@b79.net> writes: >* John Magolske <listm...@b79.net> [090830 11:25]: >> My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks >> like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having >> this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time >> improved...will see how long it takes for this message to get through.
>hmmm...this one came through right away. That's how greylisting works. The first message you send will be delayed, later messages will go straight through. After some period of time it will forget you (defaults to about 30 days I think), so you have to go through the delay again if you dont post for a while. The initial timeout is based on two things: 1. The timeout set in postgrey, which defaults to 5 minutes. Postgrey will not accept another email from you before that timeout expires. 2. The retry time of the sending mail server. When the sending mail server gets told of a temporary delivery failure (greylisting), the mail server will have to retry later. How much later is up to it. Sometimes it will retry within the postgrey 5 minute timeout and be rejected again which causes it to back off for much longer. That may be what happened to you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
