Greylisting Delays

If you have reached this page due to an error return on a message that you have sent then you should contact your hosting server, or network advisor and request that they fix their mail system.

 

Your message has been bounced in error by your outbound mail server which should have, in accordance with RFC2821, queued your message for retry.

 

The response code

 

450-4.7.1 Server busy please try again later

 

is an instruction to your outbound mail system that there is no error in transmission but the receiving server is currently unable to process the request and it should try again after a short delay, typically around 30 minutes (as recommended by RFC2821).

 

This response in not an error code (which would start with a 5) but a temporary delay caused by Greylisting.

 

THIS IS NOT AN ERROR OF THE RECEIVING SERVER.

 

 

 

Additional references:

 

Greylisting in FTGate

 

For the original Greylisting whitepaper please see this whitepaper by Evan Harris:

http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/whitepaper.html

Additional information is available here:  http://www.greylisting.org/

 

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting