Hello, I've been using Mac OS X Server 10.6.x Snow Leopard for a number of years and never really had problems with email graylisting. Yes, mail sometime took minutes or a few hours to arrive when signing up for Web site, etc. But generally speaking most personal emails came through quite fast, at least after the first one.
Recently, it seems with one particular domain (I have check the domain MX setup and DNS) personal emails are taking a long time to get through, e.g. 10-24 hours. This can be frustrating now as many people, even in business, assume email is pretty much instantaneous (even though I believe it's never guaranteed to be). My feeling is that this is a problem with the sending side, i.e. they aren't retrying to send the email soon enough or after it is rejected. But I haven't perceived this problem with my other domains. That said, perhaps it is just this new domain that is getting a lot of email from new people. LuKreme has indicated, in an earlier thread, that he had problems with amazon.com and banks. Personally, I haven't noticed that (but missing emails may be harder to notice than delayed ones). I can understand how it could be a problem, again if the sender side didn't co-operate. My question is: do people still use graylisting? It seems to me a pretty effective way to prevent spam but them I have to re-evaluate it if it is going to cause these sort of problems. We tend to be somewhat concerned these days about email receipt because of this. Perhaps graylisting has had its day, and we need to move on to some other form of spam protection? Thanks in advance for sharing any thoughts / experiences. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken Dropbox stores your files so you can access from any computer. Get it (and extra space for both of us) for free! Go to http://db.tt/geb9RWb _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
