Can anyone give me an idea why I am getting this error in the smtp log .... temporarily rejected RCPT it appears between the sender address and recipient address.
Nope not just hotmail now getting them from wannado/freeserve as well. But the Hotmail ones are being allowed thru eventually after about 4/5 attempts??
I think, you have switched on 'greylisting'. then it is normal, that the mails are temporarily rejected until they are send from the same ip-address a second time.
Ok definately caused by greylisting but! greylisting doesnt appear to be working correctly as it temp rejects all mail even after having excepted it before!! I thought it was supposed to only query the source ip the first time?
Ok definately caused by greylisting but! greylisting doesnt appear to be working correctly as it temp rejects all mail even after having excepted it before!! I thought it was supposed to only query the source ip the first time?
the large mailers like hotmail use different servers with different ip-addresses for the repeated sending. So greylisting is rejecting it several time until the first time the repeated mail comes from an already used ip-address. Check for the exact ip-address and tell us if it is still wrong.
