I had sent some test email from gmail and several hours later those test messages didn't pass. Maybe I goofed something along the way.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:04 PM Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > On 12/13/19 7:23 PM, Chromatest J. Pantsmaker wrote: > > I think I'll look into this next. It seems that the postgrey > > implementation that I followed from a previous email has stopped the > spam, > > but it's also stopped all other mail also! doh! > > > If postgrey is working as it should, it will initially respond to all > mail with a 4xx (retryable) status. The theory is spambots won't retry, > but legitimate MTAs will, usually after a delay of up to 15 minutes or > so, but some more than an hour. > > As postgrey learns, it will remember triplets (sender, sending IP, > recipient) and not delay them and in addition will whitelist domains > that retry successfully more than a few times. > > Thus, after time, the delayed mail will become less frequent. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/chromatest%40chromatest.net > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org