Greylisting causes mail failure
Hello! I'm trying to deliver a mail (a bug report) from source IP 212.227.35.69 and seem to not get it through. Some time earlier I had the same problem, and even after many retries (i.e. after more time than the greylisting timeout should be) it didn't get through. What's wrong? Is that IP on a blacklist? If so which one? Perhaps it'd be an improvement to spamd to report to the client on how it got decided to block or greylist the IP, as that can come quite handy if debugging is needed (i.e. legitimate mail doesn't get through even after the usual greylist timeout). Kind regards, Hannah.
Update (was Re: Greylisting causes mail failure)
Hello! On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:56:45PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! I'm trying to deliver a mail (a bug report) from source IP 212.227.35.69 and seem to not get it through. Some time earlier I had the same problem, and even after many retries (i.e. after more time than the greylisting timeout should be) it didn't get through. What's wrong? Ok, this time it worked after a bit more than 25 minutes. Sorry that I've reported that so fast, the reason was that last time I tried to send a mail from this box, it *never* came through, not even after 25 minutes, not even after days. Is that IP on a blacklist? If so which one? Scrap that. Perhaps it'd be an improvement to spamd to report to the client on how it got decided to block or greylist the IP, as that can come quite handy if debugging is needed (i.e. legitimate mail doesn't get through even after the usual greylist timeout). That suggestion still stands in my eyes. Kind regards, Hannah.
Re: Update (was Re: Greylisting causes mail failure)
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Perhaps it'd be an improvement to spamd to report to the client on how it got decided to block or greylist the IP, as that can come quite handy if debugging is needed (i.e. legitimate mail doesn't get through even after the usual greylist timeout). That suggestion still stands in my eyes. i haven't used spamd for blocklist things, but is that what the :msg=blahblah: in spamd.conf is supposed to do? it would seem to me that if an IP matched blocklistA, then spamd would tell blocklistA's $msg to the other side. spamd.conf(5) talks about it in the 2nd paragraph from the bottom, but as i haven't used it for blocklists i won't personally assert that i'm interpreting 'msg' correctly. jared - [ openbsd 3.7 GENERIC ( jun 10 ) // i386 ]
