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I have a postfix setup in which I use virtual_alias_maps to forward / alias mails to other addresses. In a specific sample scenario, my server would serve as an MX for the domain mydomain.com and I configured the following virtual alias:

peter@mydomain.com --> peter@otherdomain.com

where otherdomain.com is served from a third party server which implements grey listing.

In this scenario, when forwarding a mail for the first time to the otherdomain.com server, this would reject with a temporary error due to greylisting.

Is it possible to propagate this temporary error to the mail server I received the message from originally? I figure that my server currently would accept the message and append it to its own queue, practically making the greylisting on the target server useless.

  • The "correct" way to handle this would be to implement greylisting yourself, IMHO. – Sven Aug 31 '16 at 13:46
  • Nice that you reported this. It nicely explained what I was seeing here. Forwarding is a one way communication. The solution is not to forward. – ñull Mar 16 '17 at 14:01

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