Milter-greylist

Right, I assumed that is the case, but I still don't see why
Milter-Greylist is using a delay other than what I set it to.

On Sunday 11 November 2018 14:37,
Jayson Smith <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> put forth the proposition:
> Hi,
>
> Just because you tell Milter-Greylist to delay for thirty seconds, that
> doesn't mean the remote server is going to try again that soon. The remote
> server isn't paying any attention to the tempfail message more than likely,
> so it will try again whenever it sees fit. If the message is coming from a
> domain with multiple Email sending IP addresses, it will probably
> immediately try sending from several more, get a tempfail each time, then
> wait a while and send from one which has by now had its greylist delay
> expire, so the message will be accepted and that particular IP address
> whitelisted.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jayson
>
> On 11/11/2018 2:13 PM, David Woodfall dave@... [milter-greylist]
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I have set greylisting as default with a short delay time:
> >
> > racl greylist default delay 30s autowhite 60d
> >
> > But I sometimes see in the logs that it's delaying for much longer:
> >
> > 2018/11/11 16:50:39 xxxx.org [1.2.3.4]
> > address@domain -> me@mine
> > accept (ACL 86) Delayed for 00:48:56 by milter-greylist-4.6.2
> > (hostname [5.6.7.8]); Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:50:39 +0000 (GMT)
> >
> > The email headers show the same thing.
> >
> > That rule is the only one that has any delay set in it and I have no
> > global delay setting (not sure how to use one anyway). Other than
> > that I have "broken mta", "local", and "domains" lists whitelisted
> > above the greylist rule.
> >
> > Whenever I test it by sending myself mail it works as expected.
> >
> > Any idea what may be causing the wrong delays?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Dave
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>
>


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