> You enabled some "deep protocol" tests as documented: > http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html#after_220
OK, I wondered if this was part of it because I did see that it couldn't pass the connection over to smtpd and would require the other host to try again. I guess I wasn't expecting to get alerts to that process, or else was expecting an error message that sounded less severe -- "host passed postscreen tests, asking to retry later" perhaps. But now that I know > > This causes 4XX replies to clients not yet on the temporary whitelist as > documented. > If this does not suit you, please reread the documentation and make the > necessary changes. >