Hi, I am having my exim misbehave when sending mail to a host which does greylisting:
[10/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ grep lists.alioth.debian.org mainlog | grep -v '<=' 2007-03-27 17:13:35 1HWDMb-00027s-2i => blackhole (DATA ACL discarded recipients): drop, spam_score 9.3, but delivered from whitelisted sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-29 14:15:10 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134]: 451 Greylisted - please try again a little later 2007-03-29 14:33:56 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134] C="250 OK id=1HWtp9-0007z6-9y" 2007-04-03 21:08:29 1HYoMk-00036r-7k => blackhole (DATA ACL discarded recipients): drop, spam_score 13.8, but delivered from whitelisted sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134]: 451 Greylisted - please try again a little later 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retry timeout exceeded [11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ grep 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb mainlog 2007-03-29 14:15:01 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=mh P=local S=1506 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-03-29 14:15:10 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134]: 451 Greylisted - please try again a little later 2007-03-29 14:33:56 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134] C="250 OK id=1HWtp9-0007z6-9y" 2007-03-29 14:33:56 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb Completed [12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ grep 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 mainlog 2007-04-04 14:33:33 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=mh P=local S=1853 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134]: 451 Greylisted - please try again a little later 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retry timeout exceeded 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4gH-00081g-Ju <= <> R=1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 U=Debian-exim P=local S=2954 2007-04-04 14:33:41 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 Completed As you can see, message 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb was received on March 29, temprejected and delivered during the next queue run. On April 4, message 1HZ4g9-00081Z-43 was received, temprejected and immediately bounced by my local exim for "retry timeout exceeded". This is what exinext says: $ sudo exinext lists.alioth.debian.org R: domain_literal for [EMAIL PROTECTED] R: dnslookup for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Route: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> error -44: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host lists.alioth.debian.org [217.196.43.134]: 451 Greylis first failed: 29-Mar-2007 14:15:10 last tried: 04-Apr-2007 14:33:41 next try at: 04-Apr-2007 20:33:41 past final cutoff time [14/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ Looks like the retry database was not updated after the successful delivery of 1HWtWv-00063A-Bb. Can somebody explain what is going on here? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
