At 04:17 PM 08/30/2005, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >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.
Earthlink does resend automatically, but according to the page I cited its retry period is longer than then the greylist expects. That is, the SHSU server expects a response within 4 hours in order to validate, but Earthlink waits 6 hours to retry.
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