on 12-15-2008 12:01 PM Bob Hoffman spake the following: > > > ==================================== > The mail logs show that these emails are typically delayed for up to > 24 hours, sometimes longer. It appears that several attempts to deliver the > email are made, with each unsuccessful one showing "Deferred" status in the > maillog. After several hours of failed attempts the mail finally goes > through successfully. Here is a typical entry (customer name redacted): > > exmx1 : Dec 14 05:28:39 exmx1 sendmail[31574]: mBDIYhEa031574: > to=<customer@xxxxxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:00, xde > lay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=41874, relay=mail.example.com., > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred > > Unfortunately there is no reason given for the "Deferred" status > such as "Server unavailable", etc. > ==================================== > I would imagine this is a hotmail or yahoo account or something along those > lines. Not necessarily > Deferred does not usually mean bounced or turned into spam, it is more of a > way of making the user wait for their mail. Yahoo can hold mail for a long > time, minutes to hours, before they deliver. Any MTA can defer mail. It doesn't need to be a big bulk provider. > > If you keep resending the deferred mail, you may end up getting auto junked > though. > In my minds eye, they are just trying to get people to upgrade as then as if > by magic, mail to them does not get deferred. Like I said, not necessarily... > > But in my experience, all deferred mail is usually sent, as far as I know. > Just 'deferred' for a bit. Servers defer mail for many reasons. The message could exceed a size limit that makes it wait until a certain time. The server could be over a set load average. It will need to flush its queue and wait until the load comes down. It could be greylisting, but I have never seen greylisting set this high. It could be under a DDOS attack, which makes the server stop listening for a while. A log entry with deferred with no other message is probably connection related. Maybe the mail server is on a small pipe with most of the bandwitth being used for other reasons at that moment. There are more reasons than a conspiracy to get you to pay a subscription... -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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