At 03:44 PM 8/30/05 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: >Looks like the Earthlink SMTP server has been greylisted by SHSU. >(ix.netcom.com is now a part of Earthlink, I believe.) >I've written Andrew directly in more detail, but I think this is >something that the Earthlink mail admins need to take care of >themselves -- there's nothing Andrew himself can do to clear up the greylist.
Greylisting generally lets the first email from a sender address sit unsent, expecting the mail server to try again (in order to validate that it is a legitimate email, not one sent from a zombie computer). Retrying is part of the RFC, if I recall correctly, but the mail servers on some of the large commercial ISPs don't resend mail automatically. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
