Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of faq/email/greylisting
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- Sep 5, 2008, 2:36:34 PM (16 years ago)
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faq/email/greylisting
v2 v3 1 1 = Why does it take 30 minutes for some messages to get delivered? = 2 2 3 May First/People Link uses a technique called "[WikiPedia:Greylisting greylisting]"to help reduce the amount of spam being sent to our servers. Greylisting means that the first time an email message is sent to our server, our server defers delivery - telling the sending mail server: "Try again later." The next time the sending server tries to send the message, our server accepts it.3 May First/People Link uses a technique called [WikiPedia:Greylisting greylisting] to help reduce the amount of spam being sent to our servers. Greylisting means that the first time an email message is sent to our server, our server defers delivery - telling the sending mail server: "Try again later." The next time the sending server tries to send the message, our server accepts it. 4 4 5 5 Once an email sender/recipient combination has been greylisted once, it will not be greylisted again. So - this step will only happen the first time a sender sends you a message.