Slow linuxchix.org mail? (Re: [Techtalk] mailserver problems on mandrake10)

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 06/03/05 15:08 +0100, Doc Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:11:02 +1100, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> > LinuxChix is testing a greylisting policy 
> [snip]
> > Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:00:56 +0530
> > Sat,  5 Mar 2005 06:25:05 +1100 (EST)
> 
> simple math: Fri 05:30:56 - Fri 19:25:05 GMT (did i get it right?)

>From the original mail:
X-Greylist: delayed 53642 seconds by postgrey-1.17 at nest;
        Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:25:05 EST

So much easier if you don't do the maths.

> any plans on setting the time down to 59 minutes tops?  (retries evry hour)
> how is exim handling it? 
> is it possible to whitelist someone (the regulars) from this graylist?

The regulars will be whitelisted automatically. Greylisting is needed
once per sending address/host combination. That is how it works (until
the whitelisting database times out).

Devdas Bhagat