Subject: Re: [OT] send-pr being greylisted?
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@NetBSD.org>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/06/2006 09:23:08
Jeff Rizzo wrote:

> You've probably discovered this by now, but it's exactly what it says -
> greylisting.  Your MTA will retry after a period, and mail will get
> through.  Once you're in the database, the greylisting interval is
> bypassed as long as you send a mail every (I think) 60 days.  It helps
> cut down on spam into gnats (and other NetBSD lists).

Yeah, I understand now, but it's a PITA when I was waiting for the
bugtrack number so I could submit my workaround, and I needed to get
going to another client site!