"Connection timed out" has nothing to do with greylisting
have you "tuned" any timeout-settings in postfix?

Am 03.03.2011 21:50, schrieb jason hirsh:
> 
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:40 PM, John Hinton wrote:
> 
>> On 3/3/2011 3:09 PM, jason hirsh wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:02 PM, John Hinton wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/3/2011 2:52 PM, jason hirsh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:49 PM, John Hinton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/3/2011 2:34 PM, jason hirsh wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have been informed by a couple gmail users that my server is blocking 
>>>>>>> their access. They are getting 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Technical details of temporary failure:
>>>>>>>> The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more
>>>>>>>> athttp://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720
>>>>>>>> [mail.kasdivi.com <http://mail.kasdivi.com/>. (5): Connection timed 
>>>>>>>> out]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The wierd thing about this is that it appers to effect only a couple of 
>>>>>>> gmail usres.   For example mail from
>>>>>>> my gmail account goes through just fine
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you running a greylist perhaps? Either way, Google 'slams' email. In 
>>>>>> other words they try once and if the
>>>>>> email cannot be delivered before the time out, the failure response is 
>>>>>> sent. I run milter greylist on one of
>>>>>> my sendmail servers and had to include an exception for gmail. Sad but 
>>>>>> true. Gmail is not really a fully
>>>>>> compliant email system but they do a lot of other things very good.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes I am running postgrey now.. but this occured even before I added 
>>>>> postgrey
>>>>> plus, thetre still is the issue that some accounts make it and some don't
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no record of any rejection in my logs
>>>> I'm at a bit of a loss about why before postgrey. It suggests that the 
>>>> mailserver is just not answering fast
>>>> enough, which can vary based on load at a particular moment. Gmail might 
>>>> have a short connection attempt time
>>>> set as well? Obviously slamming reduces loads to a huge degree... shorter 
>>>> connection times would also reduce
>>>> loads. It is for the most part a 'free' service. Perhaps premiere gmail 
>>>> accounts are handled diffently?
>>>>
>>>> As for postgrey, I have not used that but you need to add an exception for 
>>>> gmail. I assume postgrey is like
>>>> milter greylist in that it keeps a list of recent IP addresses to allow 
>>>> incoming email. Gmail certainly has
>>>> lots of IP addresses for their mailservers. It could be simply hit or miss 
>>>> based on which are currently on that
>>>> allow list. This would show as a sporadic issue. Another test, if you know 
>>>> any of the gmail people which are
>>>> receiving the failure notices, is to have them try once, then again some 
>>>> minutes later which is greater than
>>>> you postgrey time setting. Then again, I'm not sure every email sent from 
>>>> any particular gmail user always come
>>>> in from the same IP address.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I had this issue even before I added post grey to my configuratioin..   I 
>>> am getting no errrors or bounces
>>> I have had the user resend
>>>
>>> again the wired things are 
>>> 1) one gmail account works while others don't  (which would support one 
>>> server is really slamming while tjhe
>>> other isn't
>> Or some are whitelisted by postgrey while others are not. Also, is it 
>> possible that loads are going high at
>> times, causing time outs? Gmail will just give up while almost all others 
>> simply retry later.
> 
> i have expanded my white listing in postgrey
>>> 2) absoultely no error mesages on my server.. its like it boucned off an 
>>> invisible shield
>> Do your postgrey logs show? If it is sending a delay response, it would only 
>> show in the logs of that 'invisible
>> shield'. (again, sorry I'm out of my realm here as I only have experience 
>> with milter greylist on my backup
>> sendmail server. I do remember setting several IP address ranges to get 
>> around gmail slamming.)
> 
> John I am out of MY realm with postgrey too...  but again the crux of the 
> issue is that it occured BEFORE i had
> added postgrey
> 
> I have  postgrey.. logging to maillog.... and i have tried grep'ed the 
> addresses with no find.. 
> 
> since it existed pre and post postgreu installation I continue to assume that 
> it is something to do with postfix
> 
> can I whitelist gmail in postfix in a manner to let all thie rmermutations 
> and combos go through?
> 
> I know that with all the spoofing of gmail this wull create an opening for 
> spam...  I have tried to convince the
> user the gmail is a horrible thing to be using for primary mail.. but......
> 
> I understand its gmail's error...
> 
> 
>>
>> Remember, the error message is generated by gmail, not your system. You 
>> could grep logs for the sender's email
>> address.
>>>
>>>> Best of luck.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> John Hinton
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>>>
>>
>>
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>> John Hinton
>> 877-777-1407 ext 502
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