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uses an effective anti-spam method called greylisting. Occasionally it may cause delays or even bounces emailing someone at GreenNet. However, in most cases this should be resolved at the sending server. For instructions on removing spam from incoming mail, 451 greylisted - try again later. kb17296 see Filtering out spam. Greylisting at GreenNet Since April 2004, GreenNet has been using an
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innovative and effective method of improving the mail system’s ability to limit the amount of spam that is delivered to your mailbox. It greylisted email works by identifying spam according to technical, rather than language-based, criteria. The effectiveness of this method is evident in our logs, which show that this measure alone prevents about 80% of spam messages being delivered. (Complete spam
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detection rates involving all all preventative measures are much higher; typical stats show the relative contribution of greylisting.) Theoretically, no legitimate mail should ever be permanently blocked. The method, known as “greylisting”, is based on the simple observation that while correctly-configured, legitimate mail systems attempt to deliver messages repeatedly whenever there is a temporary delivery failure, most spam is delivered through special applications, which adopt a “fire-and-forget” method. So we have set up our servers to greylisting mimecast refuse the first delivery attempt by a new mail sender, and only accept the second and any consequent ones from the same sender to the same recipient. In this way, most spamming applications give up when sending mail to people with GreenNet email addresses. Since implementing greylisting at GreenNet, we have discovered some cases of legitimate internet service providers who are not following the correct technical standards of email delivery, which say email servers should retry for “at least 4-5 days”. If a server wrongly gives up immediately, emails bounce. With your help we have developed the system to recognise these “faulty” senders. So if you have any questions or problems regarding missing messages do let us know, and as we can always use that information to improve the system. Although the method has been designed to minimise its impact on end users, by its nature you may experience some delays in email delivery, typically of 10-20 minutes, if you are expecting mail from somewhere that you have not received mail from before. Greylisting technical details If you get a response including 450 : Client host rejected: Service is unavailable then this is a result of a greylisting system and not normally a problem. 4xy codes are defined as temporary and mail servers should resend. However, if this comes back to you in a bounce message
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run your own email server, your service might be greylisting (or might add it soon) without your knowledge or permission. It has the potential to destroy a fundamental function of email in a http://articles.marco.org/238 futile attempt for service providers to save money, yet nobody knows about it. It's very, very annoying. Much more annoying than spam. What is greylisting? Email servers work by accepting messages, figuring out where they need https://support.socketlabs.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/30/0/why-is-my-outbound-email-being-greylisted to go, and sending them along their way (or to another intermediate server) until they reach the destination. It was designed to be robust and accommodate unreliable servers, so if a destination server isn't available or email error temporarily refuses to accept a message, the sending server will try again later. It's like getting a package delivered when there's nobody home to accept it: the delivery guy tries to deliver it for a few days before assuming you're dead and returning it to the sender. Greylisting tricks the sending servers into an intentional delay: for every incoming message, a greylisting mail server says "I'm too busy - try again email error greylisted soon!" It's not too busy - it just inserts this intentional delay to see if the sending server will try again. Then it accepts the message if the sending server retries after a minimum delay (usually a few minutes). Theory Greylisting is supposed to reduce spam. Supposedly, spam-sending email software won't properly accept the "I'm too busy" messages and try again later, as requested — instead, it will assume that the message's recipient is not a valid email address, and remove it from further spam attempts. This isn't to reduce the amount of spam that gets to the users — it's to reduce the amount of spam that the server's spam-filtering software needs to analyze (which can be very resource-intensive for a busy server). This is why it's in your email provider's best interest to implement greylisting: they can save money on servers. Reality It doesn't work. Plenty of spam still gets through. What's stopping the spam-sending servers from properly obeying the delay and sending the message again? Spammers have found ways around almost everything we've come up with. Why does anyone think they won't be able to figure this out? We don't need it. Modern spam filtering is highly sophisticated and extremely accurate. Greylisting does nothing to detect spam: it only slight
(84)On-Premise SEARCH Knowledgebase Why is my outbound email being greylisted? Greylisting Greylisting is used to prevent bulk e-mailers and SPAM bots from having their outboundemail delivered. Greylisting is a temporary rejection of the message that forces the sending agent to resend the message at a later time. Legitimate senders will attempt a retry on the message later while bots and spammers normally will not. Typically greylisting occurs more often on new IP addresses or mail systems that send low volume. Some ISPs will also increase greylisting when there is a problem with your server's IP configuration or your IP address has a low sender reputation. IP Configuration The IP address settings page in Hurricane Server MTA must have a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that resolves to that IP, plus a reverse DNS entry for that IP that resolves to the same FQDN. If this is not set up correctly, you will typically see error messages in the defer log that look like this: "451 No Reverse DNS for XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX". This type of misconfiguration is detected by many ISPs and will cause your outboundmail to get greylisted or to fail completely. Sender Reputation Sender reputation is how the major email providers rate an IP address based on its sending history. This is usually determined by the bounce rate, the number of spam trap hits, user complaints, and the volume of outboundmail. One of the problems that most senders have with the sender reputation system is that your reputation starts off low until you prove yourself based on the volume of outboundemail in relation to the amount of SPAM traps hits, complaints, and unknown recipient attempts. If your sender reputation is low, when an ISP then detects a large amount of messages coming from your IP, it's going to apply rate-limiting and increase greylisting because it's not sure if you are a legitimate sender. Trouble Shooting You must first check your configuration and make sure your IP addresses are set up correctly. If you find yourself being heavily greylisted, you should scan through the account level defer logs and read the error messages coming back from the server. Most of them will contain a URL that explains the sending policies for that ISP. If you continue to have problems sending to them after following their suggestions, they will normally have a form you can fill out, and if you're lucky, someone will get back to you. Hurricane MTA Server settings Hurricane Server also has some built-in features that help with greylisting. Under the Account->Deferrals page there is a check box that's called Opti