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Re: [milter-greylist] Client error messages

2005-12-09 by Dennis Willson

Looks like you haven't setup smtp auth for your users or you didn't include your internal addresses in the whitelist, or both.

Bill Levering wrote:
> I've encountered this problem... but with only one domain. Recently I  
> set up milter on a moderately busy server, and customers are  
> complaining  about the following:
> 
> On certain clients:
> 	k-mail (linux)
> 	Outlook 5.0.1 (Mac OS9)
> 	Thunderbird 1.0.7
> 	pine
> 
> Sender immediately receives an error in the form pop-up from their  
> SMTP server,
> which says: (this differs from client to client)
> 
> "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:  
> 4.7.1 Greylisting in action, please come back in 00:08:00. Please  
> verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preference and  
> try again"
> 
> or a bounce message as shown below:
> 
>>Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
>>Date: Thursday 01 December 2005 04:21 pm
>>From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer- 
>>Daemon@...>
>>To: eric@...
>>
>>This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>>
>>A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>>recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)  
>>failed:
>>
>>  ed@...
>>    SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<ed@...>:
>>    host mail.siriuslink.com [128.121.50.164]: 451 4.7.1  
>>Greylisting in
>> action, please come back in 00:26:23: retry timeout exceeded
>>
>>------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers.  
>>------
>>
>>Return-path: <eric@...>
>>Received: from [68.164.67.243] (helo=[192.168.1.102])
>>	by smtpauth01.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128)
>>	(Exim 4.34)
>>	id 1Ehyg2-0003Ax-P7; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:21:27 -0500
>>From: Eric Carter <eric@...>
>>To: Ed Kelly <ed@...>,
>> Ed Kelly <ed@...>
>>Subject: Re: don't forget your...
>>User-Agent: KMail/1.8
>>References: <3C12D294-F67A-4986-8DA7-47F7816C0C3A@...>
>>In-Reply-To: <3C12D294-F67A-4986-8DA7-47F7816C0C3A@...>
>>MIME-Version: 1.0
>>Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:21:25 -0800
>>Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;
>>  boundary="Boundary-00=_FO5jD5Jq4/UzXk+"
>>Message-Id: <200512011621.25179.eric@...>
>>
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