send-pr broken?

[Oliver Fromme]

Gary Palmer wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > I tried to submit a PR with send-pr from two completely
 > > different machines, but in both cases the mail got stuck in
 > > the mqueue with this message:
 > > 
 > > Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>:
 > > 	Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable
 > > 
 > > I tried to send from IPs 88.198.44.136 and 83.120.8.8,
 > > neither of which should be in any blacklists.
 > > 
 > > Am I doing something wrong, or is there currently a problem
 > > with send-pr or the mailserver at freebsd.org?  Should I
 > > try using the web interface, or just wait until the problem
 > > is fixed and the mail gets delivered from the queue?
 > 
 > Its an anti-spam technique.  As long as your MTA retries, it should get
 > through after no more than 15 minutes or so

Ah, OK, so it is some sort of greylisting.  I didn't think
it was greylisting because the error message was misleading,
and I also would expect to be whitelisted when I sent
another message recently ...

Anyway, I noticed that my message got through meanwhile
after about 20 minutes (the default sendmail queue runner
interval here is 30 minutes, so that would be the maximum
delay), so everything seems to be OK.

Thanks for the hint.

Best regards
   Oliver

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