Re: [exim] Bad greylisting

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Bad greylisting
Marcin Krol <admin@???> (Mo 01 Okt 2007 12:05:09 CEST):
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a problem with one recipient domain that uses ******* MS Exchange
> with following ******* greylisting software:
>
> http://www.grynx.com/projects/greylist/
>
> It breaks up the connection right after sending 451 error:
>
> mail from: tdr1@???
> 250 2.1.0 tdr1@???....Sender OK
> rcpt to: xxxx@???
> 451 4.7.1 Please try again later. Connection Greylisted with Greylist
> (http://www.grynx.com/projects/greylist/). If you've receive this in
> error then check http://www.greylisting.org/
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Note the last line.
>
> It dropped connection after signalling "451" instead of waiting for my
> Exim server to disconnect.
>
> I suspect this is the reason some mails to that domain get delayed more
> than 48 hours -- in logs I get a series of following errors for
> approximately that amount of time:
>
> 2007-10-01 00:54:09 1IbDzx-000Min-CS == xxxxx@???
> R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host


Hm, if I read "defer", it's say that your side *got* the answer. And
will react according the situation.

What does

    exinext xxxxx@???


tell you?

Do you have some information about the greylisting time of the *****
software?

--
Heiko