[tex-live] greylisting (was: pb with babel and lualatex)

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Sat May 11 11:59:05 CEST 2013


Am 11.05.2013 11:15, schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> 2013/5/10 Stephan Hennig <mailing_list at arcor.de>:
>> [resending again some hours later
>> Every time I get a /different/ greylisting related error message.
>> Shouldn't greylisting work transparently to the end-user?  I don't even
>> know who's to blame, my ISP or the recipient's.  Misconfigured servers +
>> greylisting is a plague.]
>>
> It is the problem of your mailing SW. In case of greylisting it
> receives a message saying "Temporarily unavailable, try X minutes
> later" where X may vary, typicaly from 1 to 5 minutes. The mailing SW
> must not report it back to the sender but silently try again. Sendmail
> in Linux and eComStation works exactly that way. I have not tested
> thoroughly Microsoft Exchange Server but it seems to be correct too.

I'm not running my own mail server, but accessing my ISP's mail service
via Thunderbird.  Will contact my ISP.  Thank you!

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig



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