This may sound rather vague, so I do apologise. I have my "own" email
server, which runs my own domain and seems to work absolutely fine the vast
majority of the time. I have a problem at the moment, specifically with
Epic Games - who are claiming that they are sending me password reset emails
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Hi,
This is the first time I have configured sender_access blacklisting -
although it works fine - i.e. the specific email address I have chosen to
blacklist get's their email blocked with /var/log/messages noting it as
"Sender address rejected:access denied". I notice that after an hour has
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Thanks for the comprehensive explanation. What's strange is it's happening
for example to my gmail account (which I was using to test sender_access) as
well and I would have expected their mail servers to "behave". Theirs seems
to retry at random periods between 90 minutes and two hours. I sent
> soft_bounce = yes
^^ you have the soft_bounce safety net enabled. This changes all 5xx to
4xx replies, telling the sending server that it should try again later.
See http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#soft_bounce
Doh, thanks. I put that in years ago for some reason that's long since gone
