* * * * *

                        The new video card, round two.

Last week, I initiated a return of the video card with Amazon [1]. I stated
my reason for returning it:

> I received an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE], which works, but
> is not what I ordered.
>

and I was informed that I should hear back from the third party company I
ordered the video card from in less than 48 hours.

Nearly a week later, and I had yet to hear back.

I logged into Amazon [2] to lodge another complaint when I stumbled across
the message the third-party company sent to me (the following day, on the
21^st), along with the error that prevented the email from being delivered:

> Final-Recipient: rfc822; Sean Conner <[email protected]>
> Action: failed
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 4.4.7 Message expired: unable to deliver in 840 minutes.<450 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Service temporarily unavailable>
> Status: 4.4.7
>

XXXXXX! Amazon ran afoul of my greylisting daemon [3] (Amazon is acting as a
proxy between me and the third-party company—neither one of us has the
other's true email address).

Checking the logs confirmed what I suspected happened: every attempt by
Amazon to deliver the email came from a different IP (Internet Protocol)
address, which caused the greylist daemon to treat each attempt as a separate
email and thus, block each attempt.

Sigh.

Once that was cleared up, I got the story as to what happened. The third-
party company had run out of the video card I requested, and since the card
they sent contained the same connectors and amount of memory, they felt it
would be acceptable. Had I the right drivers, it might have been acceptable.
But I didn't, so it won't.

The third-party company apologized for sending the wrong card. They also said
they just received a new shipment of the video card I did order and they're
sending one to me. All I need to do now is return the original card they sent
back once I get the right card.

So … round three!

We shall see how this goes …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/01/20.2
[2] http://www.amazon.com/
[3] http://www.x-grey.com/

Email author at [email protected]