On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:55:05 +1000, Troy Piggins wrote:

> I run my own postfix mail server and have a static IP address with my
> ISP. I can send email to almost anyone and not have a problem, but when
> I try to send emails to friends that have bigpond email addresses I get
> these sort of error message/bounces:
>
> Apr 28 16:34:43 piggo postfix/error[18053]: 1844A271A004:
> to=<XYZ@bigpond.net.au>, relay=none, delay=0.03, delays=0.02/0/0/0.01,
> dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: conversation
> with extmail.bpbb.bigpond.com[61.9.189.122] timed out while sending
> message body)
>
> This has been happening for a few months now. I can only assume that
> bigpond is blocking my IP address range, probably in some misguided
> attempt to stop spam.
>
Does this happen every time you send mail to a particular address?

Does the mail eventually (after an hour or two) get delivered?

> Is there any way for me to adjust postfix settings so it doesn't
> timeout? Or is this a setting at their end and I can't do anything
> about it?
>
Is your configured timeout particularly short?


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