BT/Yahoo You Have This slightly better!

Permanent Link posted December 20th, 2007

It looks like after approximately 3 weeks BT/Yahoo have actually worked out what greylisting is meant to be and have applied this to their servers.

Dec 20 06:58:18 cobalt qmail: 1198133898.559094 starting delivery 1113: msg 7375264 to remote ahiddenemail@btinternet.com

Dec 20 06:58:19 cobalt qmail: 1198133899.434814 delivery 1113: deferral:
Sorry,_I_wasn’t_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ (this message varies from the typical deferred to this)

Dec 20 07:04:58 cobalt qmail: 1198134298.251333 starting delivery 1139: msg 7375264 to remote ahiddenemail@btinternet.com

Dec 20 07:04:58 cobalt qmail: 1198134298.621727 delivery 1139: success:
195.50.106.135_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_ok_dirdel/

Oh Look! One deferral and then it’s accepted and it remembers too although it looks like individual mail servers have to greylist individually.

So, 3 weeks later, approximately 25 forms filled in, 6 stock answers, 1 request for more information (unanswered) and several requests to see if I wanted help to set up Outlook Express and we’re finally there. Although I feel that this was always going to happen once they realised what was happening, and any fix is not the result of our endless paper pushing.

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