Today we sent out some mails which were rejected, due to our use of postscreen. From my queue:
3T26TK1xBDz1tSG 49541 Mon Dec 12 15:47:33 aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de (host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: host mail2.charite.de[141.42.206.200] said: 450-4.3.2 Service currently unavailable (in reply to RCPT TO command)) recipi...@klinikum-bayreuth.de So, mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de is using Postfix: % telnet mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de 25 Trying 212.185.206.162... Connected to mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de ESMTP Postfix EHLO foo 250-mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 20480000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN QUIT 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. and it seems they're also using sender address verification: Dec 12 15:47:22 mail postfix/postscreen[1859]: CONNECT from [212.185.206.162]:24483 to [141.42.202.200]:25 Dec 12 15:47:27 mail postfix/smtp[5563]: 3T26T20ZNYzFvnb: host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: Address verification in progress (in reply to RCPT TO command) And the address verification probe meets our postscreen: Dec 12 15:47:28 mail postfix/postscreen[1859]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from [212.185.206.162]:24483: 450 4.3.2 Service currently unavailable; from=<postmas...@klinikum-bayreuth.de>, to=<aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>, proto=ESMTP, helo=<mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de> But: Why does their Postfix cache this tempfail for so long? Which class (positive? negative?) does apply? # fgrep 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG /var/log/mail.log Dec 12 15:47:33 mail2 postfix/smtpd[14743]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: client=mail.charite.de[141.42.202.200] Dec 12 15:47:33 mail2 postfix/cleanup[14841]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: message-id=<73bb6a4a2e05a7e82db17ab90018a...@charite.de> Dec 12 15:47:33 mail2 postfix/qmgr[11916]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: from=<aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>, size=49541, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 15:47:37 mail2 postfix/smtp[12693]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: to=<recipi...@klinikum-bayreuth.de>, relay=mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162]:25, delay=4.3, delays=0.04/0/0.91/3.3, dsn=4.1.7, status=deferred (host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: host mail2.charite.de[141.42.206.200] said: 450-4.3.2 Service currently unavailable 450 4.3.2 Contact postmas...@charite.de (using a different email address!) for technical assistance. Please provide the following information in your problem report: (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Dec 12 15:55:08 mail2 postfix/qmgr[11916]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: from=<aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>, size=49541, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 15:55:09 mail2 postfix/smtp[16245]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: to=<recipi...@klinikum-bayreuth.de>, relay=mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162]:25, delay=456, delays=455/0.61/0.1/0.14, dsn=4.1.7, status=deferred (host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: host mail2.charite.de[141.42.206.200] said: 450-4.3.2 Service currently unavailable 450 4.3.2 Contact postmas...@charite.de (using a different email address!) for technical assistance. Please provide the following information in your problem report: (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Dec 12 16:05:10 mail2 postfix/qmgr[17153]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: from=<aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>, size=49541, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 16:05:10 mail2 postfix/smtp[19078]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: to=<recipi...@klinikum-bayreuth.de>, relay=mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162]:25, delay=1057, delays=1057/0.08/0.11/0.36, dsn=4.1.7, status=deferred (host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: host mail2.charite.de[141.42.206.200] said: 450-4.3.2 Service currently unavailable 450 4.3.2 Contact postmas...@charite.de (using a different email address!) for technical assistance. Please provide the following information in your problem report: (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Dec 12 16:25:10 mail2 postfix/qmgr[17153]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: from=<aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>, size=49541, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 12 16:25:12 mail2 postfix/smtp[22408]: 3T26TK1xBDz1tSG: to=<recipi...@klinikum-bayreuth.de>, relay=mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162]:25, delay=2259, delays=2257/0/1.9/0.54, dsn=4.1.7, status=deferred (host mail.klinikum-bayreuth.de[212.185.206.162] said: 450 4.1.7 <aktion-sauberehae...@charite.de>: Sender address rejected: unverified address: host mail2.charite.de[141.42.206.200] said: 450-4.3.2 Service currently unavailable 450 4.3.2 Contact postmas...@charite.de (using a different email address!) for technical assistance. Please provide the following information in your problem report: (in reply to RCPT TO command)) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de