We found the following in postfix log while expecting test mail delivery:

2012-03-29T13:32:41+02:00 services/192.168.10.210
postfix/postscreen[1697]: [ID 197553 mail.info] NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
from [74.125.83.53]:56421: 450 4.3.2 Service currently unavailable;
from=<sender@theirdomain <mailto:uh...@gazeta.pl>>,
to=<recipient@ourdomain <mailto:ni...@instytutsztuki.us.edu.pl>>,
proto=ESMTP, helo=<mail-ee0-f53.google.com>

2012-03-29T13:40:33+02:00 services/192.168.10.210
postfix/postscreen[1697]: [ID 197553 mail.info] NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
from [74.125.82.43]:35504: 450 4.3.2 Service currently unavailable;
from=<<mailto:uh...@gazeta.pl>sender@theirdomain
<mailto:uh...@gazeta.pl>>,
to=<<mailto:ni...@instytutsztuki.us.edu.pl>recipient@ourdomain
<mailto:ni...@instytutsztuki.us.edu.pl>>, proto=ESMTP,
helo=<mail-wg0-f43.google.com>

So, google.com got 450 from postscreen and repeated delivery from
_other_ IP and then got another 450. It's possible the mail would not be
delivered at all if google.com had sent it from different 60 thousands
:-) IP addresses every time.

The cure could be DNS whitelisting but we know it's not applicable in
postscreen's permanent whitelist. We added then IP subnet 74.125.0.0/16
to permanent whitelist. But we know there are other ISPs who could send
mail in a similar way.

Does somebody have CIDR whitelist file of mail ISPs (a la postgrey
whitelist clients) perhaps?

Thanks,

MU

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