[Outages-discussion] [outages] Austin TX Area iMessage issues

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Folks,

It's very important to remember that the outages mailing list server
uses greylisting:

> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7
>	(puck.nether.net [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:42:37 -0400 (EDT)
> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7
>	(puck.nether.net [204.42.254.5]); Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:41:30 -0400 (EDT)

If you aren't familiar with greylisting, please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting#Disadvantages

My opinion has always been that greylisting should not be used on
servers where immediate/quick delivery of mail is required (e.g. mailing
lists or mission-critical things).  I ran a hosting organisation for
nearly 18 years, and greylisting was something we stopped using because
of the delays (I had too many users who were reliant on immediate mail
delivery, pertaining to their places of employment) and because of
random breakage (specifically with postgrey).

However, the server is Jared's and he has a right to run it as he sees
fit, based on many criteria.  We have to respect that.

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
| Mountain View, CA, US                                            |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:32:25PM -0400, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> Nah, I'm not convinced that it's really down yet.  I'm waiting for another 20 "me too's" before I believe it.
> 
> --
> Jeremy L. Gaddis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Geoffrey Mina <gmina at connectfirst.com> wrote:
> 
> > I can't iMessage my wife.  This is terrible!
> > 
> > Can we move this to discussions now? :)
> > 
> > 
> 
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