On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > My mistake: I didn't look carefully enough at what > postscreen_dnsbl_whitelist_threshold is supposed to do. Sorry for the > rapid-fire noise. > > Theory: Your 8 DNSBL lookups are not all completing fast enough for > postscreen to make a pass/fail/whitelist decision before the sender proceeds > with its SMTP chat5, which postscreen handles (rather than handing off to > smtpd) because it has not yet whitelisted the IP. 8 seconds after the > connection it has all those answers and logs the PASS NEW. > > IF that's what is happening, you may be able to address it by bumping up > postscreen_greet_wait and/or lowering postscreen_dnsbl_timeout. But I've > been wrong before...
No problem. I appreciate your responses -- and your theories/ideas here. I'll definitely take a look at ideas in these last two paragraphs. -Bryan