Re: [PATCH 21.5] Add files for distribution packaging.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote:
> Technical aside: That's because Google is already backed off to more
> than 24 hours between retries, and the greylisting whitelist expires
> at 24 hours.  I don't understand why that happens so quickly, though.
> Normally an MTA will back off 4, 8, 12, 24, 24 hours for a total of 6
> tries -- it should easily get through on the first retry, and you get
> a second shot on the second retry.  Maybe it's because Google has
> multiple MTA IP addresses (that's how most greylists identify the
> sender system)?

Ah.  Thanks for the explanation.  I have no idea how Google handles
the backoffs.

> I hope that I'm now going to have more time to work on our
> infrastructure.  My masters students just handed in their last drafts,
> so they'll be making a lot fewer demands on my time.  Maybe.  (I've
> always wondered why advisors aren't allowed to just write the damn
> theses for them -- it would take so much less time and effort -- and
> this year I've thought that more often than in the last 25 years
> combined :-( .)

Ha!  I'd like to see you suggest that in some university committee. :-)
-- 
Jerry James
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