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Rich Matheisen [MVP]  
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 More options Dec 13 2005, 10:24 pm
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.exchange.admin
From: "Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richn...@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:24:34 -0500
Local: Tues, Dec 13 2005 10:24 pm
Subject: Re: Greylisting Problem

Rob <R...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I am running Exchange 2003 SP2.
>Yesterday, we discovered that one of the organizations that we frequently
>email has implemented greylisting on their mail servers.
>They told us our messages were not getting through because our mail server
>did not understand how to respond to the error codes that the greylist
>program was sending back. So, our Exchange server was not properly
>re-queueing the messages for a re-delivery.

The respose should be a 4xx status, indicating a transient, retryable,
error.

What did they tell you was the status they were sending?

What happens to the mail at yur side? Is it requeued? Retried?
Returned as undeliverable?

>My question: Does anyone know how I need to change any settings on my
>Exchange server so that it will properly re-try so that it will be allowed
>through a greylist?

You don't have to do anything. The 4xx status will be retried on the
schedule you set on the SMTP Virtual Server.

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Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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