Author: Eric Messick Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Sender verification, permanent vs. transient error codes
Well, this appears to be the winner. If I REJECT outgoing auth connections
to their host, the sender verify completes with no problems.
Now I just need to convince them to fix it on their end...
Thanks, everyone!!!
-eric
On 1/25/07, Eric Messick <nanosyzygy@???> wrote: >
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> On 1/25/07, Stephen Gran <steve@???> wrote:
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> > The problem is apparently that, while you responsibly return icmp
> > unreachable for auth queries, they silently drop them, leaving you
> > reprobing them for auth before sending a greeting. This whole process
> > takes more than 30 seconds, so they tear down the conversation and
> > tempfail your mail.
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> That sounds like an excellent theory. The only question I have is: why
> don't I see outgoing auth queries in the conversation?
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> I'll look into probing them on auth, and trying to stomp them on my end,
> and see if that helps.
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> -eric
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