Dear David Lord- > Hal Dell wrote: > > The problem is that I received the error code and message "451 > Greylisted, please try again in 900 seconds". In the case of xMail it > did not retry to send the eMail. > > According to RFC2505, 4xx are Transient Negative Completion reply > (Temporary > Error) and should result in the mail transfer being put back on queue > again and a new attempt being made later.
>> David Lord wrote: >> >> That doesn't seem right, as greylisting has been taken up by more providers I've seen temporary >> failure many times but xmail retries and either delivers or eventually gives up and I get an unable >> to deliver message. Only unable to deliver have been whilst testing and not to real addresses. >> Xmail default here was a notification after first temporary failure then after complete failure which >> might be 4 - 5 days later. I modified notification settings to 1,6,9 attempts but any that have hit >> 6, all test emails, never get through at all. If I'm desperate I check what is still in spool file that >> xmail is still trying. One unlikely possibility is the greylisting accept period is too short and after >> jumping past it there is no possibility mail will get through. Thanks for the input -- I've been using xMail for quite some time and checked on your suggestions. I don't understand the "NotifyTryPattern" option -- is this in hours? None of the docs I found describe this in detail. The problem is that with the 451 returned error from the remote MTA -- xMail seems to have considered this an error because it immediately sent back an eMail to the user with the Subject "Error sending message...". It did NOT retry -- I double checked this by reviewing the log file. Here is what is in the LOG file (please note I removed the original from/to for privacy) : [PeekTime] 1181221418 : Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:03:38 -0400 << ErrCode = -77 ErrString = [RCPT TO:] not permitted by remote SMTP server ErrInfo = 451 Greylisted, please try again in 900 seconds SMAIL SMTP-Send MX = "mail22.webcontrolcenter.com." SMTP = "smtp-x1.phl1.mgfx.com" From = "<dest>" To = "<from>" Failed ! SMTP-Error = "451 Greylisted, please try again in 900 seconds" SMTP-Server = "mail22.webcontrolcenter.com." >> The error code -77 translates to ERR_SMTP_BAD_RCPT_TO" with the string "[RCPT TO:] not permitted by remote SMTP server" as shown. I don't think this is correct.... I am hoping that someone can read the source code better then I can to help figure this out. I don't see any place in the Server.Tab to change this behavior. For xMail to work with other MTAs it needs to follow the RFC 2505 and I think xMail should treat 451 as a soft error? Thanks, Hal Dell Managing Partner ePodWorks.net, Inc. PO Box 22 Willow Grove, PA 19090 +1-215-830-0662 (phone) +1-215-913-6894 (cell) +1-866-549-4652 (fax) Need Support send eMail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
