I understand many of these web hosting services will block accounts if too much mail is coming through. I just switched from another provider back in December so maybe I should go back to using my gmail account even though it didn't seem to work too well a week ago. I wasn't receiving messages from the list.
I suspect it's this hosting provider that is the problem and I didn't even think of it at the time since this list receives a lot of email. I'll try unsubscribing and resubscribing under my other email address. I've already paid this company a year in advance so I don't need problems with them. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving There are at least two incarnations of the definition of "greylisted". One involves something that is not yet "blacklisted" but on a watch list, or such similar happenings when a particular mail server is ill-configured. But the most common usage is that of an anti-spam filter which effectively blocks the message the first time it is received and requests that it be resent after a certain delay, typical 300 seconds or so. Since most spammers don't bother resending messages, legitimate messages are supposed to get resent as per standard protocol. In other words, your mail hosting account has filters established on it. The downside is that all your mail is delayed. It can get worse; if the sending server is configured to ignore such requests, then even legitimate messages will never get sent a second time and thus never arrive. Greylisting practices are highly debated and one big criticism is that their very nature triples the amount of messages being sent, as if the Internet weren't becoming more and more crowded every day. In many European and Asian countries where the average user bandwidth is much more than their American counterparts can enjoy, this practice is not yet seen as a problem. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: William Boswell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving Ron: It wasn't left in my outbox, but I did receive two messages from a server that indicated it had not been sent. This is part of that message: Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host mail.legacyusers.com [69.175.37.210]: 451 Greylisted, please try again in 900 seconds I have no idea what 451 Greylisted means. Shortly after receiving this second message the Saturday email was finally delivered. The message was delivered by the email hosting service (my hosted web service). Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving Bill, Loads of reasons: It's in html which makes it bigger <vbg> Delay with your ISP Delivered by the country route Got lost Delays with the Legacy Server (though I haven't found any) Although the details attached to the post show that it was not posted until today - was it left in your outbox? Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: William Boswell To: [email protected] Sent: 02 March 2010 15:11 Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving This is weird. I sent this on Saturday and it has taken three days to post. I've been receiving messages from the board, but wondered why this one took so long to post. From: William Boswell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving I had the same problem a couple of days ago, so I unsubscribed and resubscribed using a different email address. I think it has something to do with Gmail since I normally use that email address and not this one. Bill Boswell Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
