Just in case someone stumbles on this thread; I never did do anything to
solve this problem but it just seemed to go away on it's own.
I suspect this is a form of Google greylisting. Once google gets to know
you a bit better it stops delaying your mail.
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John Lange
www.johnlange.ca
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:27 -0600, John Lange wrote:
> For some reason I can't seem to send any email to gmail accounts. The
> google mail servers keep telling me:
>
> 451 4.5.0 SMTP protocol violation see RFC 2821
>
> The MTS is standard postfix and I've tried it from a couple different
> machines which otherwise don't have any problems sending mail.
>
> A google search turned up other people with the same problem but no
> solutions.
>
> Anyone have a clue what the problem is?
>