[Mimedefang] Aggressive mailers

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote:

> Yesterday a mailer went amok when trying to get a mail through to
> our server. It was tempfailed by the greylist as it should, but
> instead of waiting for awhile before trying again it retried 886 times
> in 10 minutes (after witch it was let though by the greylist).

> What you describe is not uncommon.

Sympatico (a Canadian ISP) also has a rather aggressive retry schedule.
Magma (another Canadian ISP) goes to the other extreme, and seems to retry
only every 12 hours!

Regards,

David.