#4 deferred?

[Anonymous]

What does deferred then not received mean?

[Wayne McDougall]

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You probably want to post questions like this under Help.

Deferred and not received means someone tried to send an
email to your local SMTP server, and Fluffy generated a
temporary failure message, in which case the sender is
supposed to retry later. Fluffy does this with new sending mail
servers it hasn't seen lately, and by default will keep tell tehm
to retry for up to 15 minutes.

WHY it does this is because dedicated spam software often
(usually) doesn't retry AND other spam sources might get
listed on a DNSBL by the time they retry. So this simple
deferrment (known as tempfailing) elimnates more than half of
my spam.

Deferred and then not received counts the number of times
someone makes an attempt to send email and doesn't try
again later after the deferred period has expired.

Fluffy keeps track of who tried for 5 days. Most real mail
servers (as distinct from spammers) will keep trying to send
mail after a temporary failure for 3-5 days. You can look at
the list - is is a file named defer.txt in the Fluffy folder.

Here's an entry from my defer.txt:
25/10/03 11:08:23%
<rxxet27@yahoo.com>system@codeworks.gen.nz

So at 11:08:23 on 25 October rxxet27@yahoo.com tried to
send me email. Just looking at the email address it is obvious
this is a fake spam address. And the spammer did not come
back to resend. Yeh!

I hope that is clear.