g_verify_smtp - it’s one of the advanced settings. I’d set it years ago when first configuring SurgeMail. Set and forget!
I turned it off.
John
> On Jan 12, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Frank Bulk <fbulk@mypremieronline.com> wrote:
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> That sounds like a spam-control mechanism by Surgemail, to make sure the sending server accepts SMTP connections, too. But I can't find that setting, if it exists.
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> Frank
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wilkes <john@wilkes.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2019 5:03 PM
> To: surgemail-list@netwinsite.com
> Subject: [SurgeMail List] problem receiving email from some sites
>
> Occasionally someone tries to send email to my system but it doesn't go
> through. Eventually they get a bounce because a connection with my
> server could not be established. This has mystified me, but it happens
> so rarely that I've assumed it was a problem on the sending side.
>
> But I recently received a message that made me wonder if it is something
> SurgeMail is doing:
>
> "there is something funny about the mailserver for your domain. It
> connects back to me or something and gets blocked by my firewall, then
> mail sits in the queue for hours until I unblock it again."
>
> Any idea what this is about?
>
> --
> John Wilkes
> john@wilkes.com
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