Greylisting

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 2017-08-24 10:03 am, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:49:45 -0400
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 
>> I've been a member of this list for years.  But I recently had an
>> email to the list rejected due to greylisting:
>> 
>> <xfce at xfce.org>: host mail.xfce.org[138.48.2.106] said: 450 4.7.1
>>      <xfce at xfce.org>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 5
>> minutes (in
>>      reply to RCPT TO command)
>> 
>> Any idea what's going on here?  I thought that greylisting simply
>> delayed emails, not rejected them.  (BTW, my email provider is
>> Dreamhost.)
> 
> It wasn't rejected, it just used the word "rejected", 450 is a
> temporary error.

It was rejected.  The email never appeared on the list.  Plus the text 
above was included in a reject email that the Dreamhost MTA sent me.

DR