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Re: [milter-greylist] case sensitive checks on email recipient

2008-02-29 by manu@netbsd.org

Ryan Moore <ryan.moore@...> wrote:

> I saw an old thread from the archives, and the issue arose when a client of
> ours had some mail 'blocked' from one of their clients, I say blocked because
> the sending server never retried the emails (probably a brain-dead exchange
> box). The client sent to the same address, but with different cases (xyz@...,
> XYZ@...), with several hours between emails which should have been passed (was
> over the greylist period, but much less than the timeout).
> 
> If anyone has any advice, I'd greatly appreciate it, Thanks.

My advice is to:
a) Notify the broken sender admin so that it can fix it.
and/or
b) whitelist the broken sender IP address
-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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