Mail delivery time (was: Re: [NCLUG] New LUG in town)

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Wed Nov 15 00:53:44 MST 2006


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:51:00AM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:29:26AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >Why exactly would this message have taken several hours to be delivered
> >back to me?
> 
> You'll have to contact the ipowerweb.com folks to have them look at the
> logs on their mail server.  In looking at the logs on the mail server and
> your headers, I see that host15.ipowerweb.com made a connection right when
> you sent the message, and the community mail server gave a 450 for
> greylisting.  The problem was that the next time ipowerweb.com tried to
> re-deliver the message was 10 hours later...  Not sure why they would have
> sat on it that long.

That's a good point . . . but I was thinking about the fact that there's
a greylisting on that email.  Why?  Any ideas?

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."



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