<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">kashani</b> <<a href="mailto:kashani-list@badapple.net">kashani-list@badapple.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Preston Hagar wrote:<br>> Using postgrey on<br>> my own personal server, I make it delay for 5 minutes. Most mail<br>> servers will keep trying and I will get the message within 10-15 minutes<br>> max. I have had a few times, though, that the mail took 4 or 5 hours <br>> before it was tried again.<br><br> hotmail will retry every minute for 3 minutes. If you make the delay 30<br>secs you will see mail come in much quicker from a number of places<br>without accepting more spam. It's been my experience that mail is either <br>retried or it is not and the actual time of the delay doesn't matter.<br>Also setting the whitelist time to 63 days will keep infrequent emailers<br>from getting greylisted as often.<br><br>You might also checkout sqlgrey which has some nice twists like <br>whitelisting a domain after x successful deliveries in y time. The<br>ebuild is in bugzilla.<br><br><a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71535">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71535</a><br><br>kashani <br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list</blockquote><div><br>postgrey does the whitelist a domain after so many sucessful tries. I do use that as well. Don't get me wrong, most of my mail is delivered right after the 5 minute limit. I just wanted to warn the OP that on a few occasions, mail can take longer. According to RFC specs, it can take up to 4 hours. With the real estate company I work for, even one message taking 4 hours is unacceptable. <br><br>Thanks for your input. I will check out sqlgrey.<br><br>Preston<br></div><br></div><br>