From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 7 20:58:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B5E106578B for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7288FC0A for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20049 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2010 20:58:10 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Jan 2010 20:58:09 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E22F750825; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:58:08 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Programmer In Training References: <20100107201839.GA15118@albatros.sisis.de> <4B4645B3.2000207@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:58:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B4645B3.2000207@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> (Programmer In Training's message of "Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:36:03 -0600") Message-ID: <44k4vthbtr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthias Apitz , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Any delivery block to freebsd-questions list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:58:10 -0000 Programmer In Training writes: > On 1/7/2010 2:18 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have sent some hours ago a mail to freebsd-questions >> which went out fine to the MX of my ISP (as I can see in >> /var/log/maillog) but does not show up in the list and not >> in the Archives. The Subject: was about sendmail and SMTP AUTH. >> >> I have changed the ISP today morning for outbound mail and it >> may happen that this could be the cause, even if mails to >> other recipients are working fine... >> >> Is there some kind of anti-SPAM protection for freebsd-questions >> based on the IP of the SMTP origin? To whom I could contact? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> matthias > > I too have a similar problem with my emails. They take about 30-45 > minutes to be posted to the list. According to Thunderbird the mail is > sent (at least to my mail server @ Bluehost), and the time-stamp on the > message reads as the time I sent it. Didn't think anyone else was having > this problem. Sounds like that's just graylisting. The delay will depend on how long it takes your MTA (or the smarthost you use) to retry the message. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/