On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:48:45AM +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > Hi Sonia, > > Notice that it's a 4xx return code, meaning its a transient error.
doesn't it mean that the slug smtp server has tried to verify [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid email adderss, by making a connect to the smtp server for snowfrog.net (dig snowfrog.net mx) and trying a vrfy command ? > > My take is that the SLUG mail servers have greylisting enabled. Any new SMTP > sessions would be placed on hold for a specified amount of time (normally 20 > minutes?) > > The whole purpose of the exercise is to slow spammers down. > > Regards, > Bill > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:09:54PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > I noticed that email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is slow to be received by the > > list; looking thru my mail logs I came across this: > > > > Jun 13 11:57:06 localhost postfix/smtp[14117]: 9153D2E05: host > > rusty.slug.org.au[202.177.212.193] said: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sender address rejected: unverified address: Address verification in > > progress (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > > > This 'unverified address' problem - how do I resolve it? What's causing > > it to be unverified? > > > > -- > > Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. > > . > > "Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh, > > say, evaluating an early automobile and complaining that there's no > > place to hitch up a horse." (Daniel Dvorkin) > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCS d+ s: a- C++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W++ N* o-- K-- w--- > O-- M V- PS PE Y PGP++ t 5 X++ R tv b++ DI+ D++ > G e++ h! r y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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