Bowie Bailey writes:
What could cause a timeout for a particular message? It isn't especially large. The message is text/ascii encoded as quoted-printable.This is what I see in the logs (email addresses and internal server name munged): Oct 7 10:17:18 bnofmail courierd: started,id=0063C068.433D78E1.00002E39,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,module=esmtp, host=internalserver.com,addr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oct 7 10:22:18 bnofmail courieresmtp: id=0063C068.433D78E1.00002E39,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] server.com>: Connection timed out Oct 7 10:22:18 bnofmail courieresmtp: id=0063C068.433D78E1.00002E39,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,addr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] server.com>,status: deferred Oct 7 10:22:18 bnofmail courierd: completed,id=0063C068.433D78E1.00002E39 The message is spam, so I could just trash it, but I would like to know why it isn't going through.
There are spam filters out there that respond to spam by stalling the sender, and not sending any kind of a response.
I always thought that it's an incredibly stupid thing to do. The sender will just keep trying to send the spam, again; rejecting it once is obviously the better approach.
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