[Distutils] Greylisting?

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Sep 15 23:45:05 CEST 2009


On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i've just seen the following in a mail header:
>
> --- snip ---
> X-Greylist: delayed 2135 seconds by postgrey-1.31 at albatross;
>        Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:14:38 CEST
> --- snip ---
>
> Why do my mail got delayed for more than 35 min? Is there anything I,
> as a subscriber to this list, can do about it?

You can't stop the greylisting since it's a site-wide anti-spam  
defense.  If you control your mail server, you might be able to adjust  
the retry delay though.

-Barry

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