On 26/05/06 11:25, Sándor Zsolt wrote:

> The whole system works fine, but recently notified that the incoming mails - 
> from the Internet - suffer considerable delay. Tracking the problem we found 
> out that it is caused by the huge amount of spam mails, where the local 
> domain is correct, but the addressee is wrong so courier gives back an:
> 
>        550 User unknown
> 
> error message. This is all right, the only problem is that this response 
> arrives after a considerable time. It takes at least 8 secs, but sometimes 
> even 2 mins.

2 minutes and 8 seconds?

Look at this SMTP dialog:

$ telnet helium.leptonite.de smtp
Trying 85.214.27.32...
Connected to helium.leptonite.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 helium.leptonite.de ESMTP
HELO its.me
250 helium.leptonite.de Ok.
MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 Ok.
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- delay: 8 seconds ---
550 User unknown.
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- delay: 16 seconds ---
550 User unknown.
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- delay: 32 seconds ---
550 User unknown.
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- delay: 64 seconds ---
550 User unknown.
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- delay: 128 seconds ---
550 User unknown.

My guess: it's not a bug, it's a feature to slow down spammers.

Daniel

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