blacklist problems

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> On 1/10/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:54:09 -0500
>> "David Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Looks like one of the blacklists I was using is bad -- rejecting
>>> everything.  Removed.  Oh, the joys of using blacklists.
>>
>> Hi David, thanks for the heads-up. Should we re-send any email sent in the
>> last (say) couple of hours? Just curious as I sent a query to the list no
>> more than an hour a go.
>
> The reject has been a temporary failure -- try again later.  So the
> mail servers should resend.  When they will resend depends on the
> requeue time, some folks set that as low as 15 minutes, others at 1
> hour or more.

Sadly, the retry time for some servers was rather low (like every 5-10 
minutes), and after X failures, they decided that it was fatal, and mail 
bounced.

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