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               So this is what it feels like on the other side

I subscribed to a mailing list today. I had to wait until the validation
email passed through the greylist daemon [1] on my system, but once that
happened, I can start replying to the list.

Only the first post I made didn't go through. There was no error reported.
There was no bounce message. Nothing. I checked to make sure I was using the
address I signed up with (I did) and the filters on my email program were
correct (they were).

I then checked the logs and behold:

-----[ data ]-----
Oct 30 19:07:41 brevard postfix/smtp: 023E22EA679B:
       to=<XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXX>,
       relay=X­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­[XXXXXXXX­XXXXX],
       delay=4,
       status=deferred (host XXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXX[XX­XXXXXXXX­XXX] said:
               450 4.2.0 <XXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XX>:
               Recipient address rejected: Greylisted,
               see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/XXXXXX­XXXXXXXX­XXXXXXX [2]
               (in reply to RCPT TO command))

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Ha! I'm being greylisted right back! This is the first time I've noticed my
outgoing email being greylisted. I find this amusing.

[1] http://www.x-grey.com/
[2] http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/

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