* * * * * The new video card, round two. Last week, I initiated a return of the video card with Amazon [1]. I stated my reason for returning it: > I received an ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE], which works, but > is not what I ordered. > and I was informed that I should hear back from the third party company I ordered the video card from in less than 48 hours. Nearly a week later, and I had yet to hear back. I logged into Amazon [2] to lodge another complaint when I stumbled across the message the third-party company sent to me (the following day, on the 21^st), along with the error that prevented the email from being delivered: > Final-Recipient: rfc822; Sean Conner > Action: failed > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 4.4.7 Message expired: unable to deliver in 840 minutes.<450 : Recipient address rejected: Service temporarily unavailable> > Status: 4.4.7 > XXXXXX! Amazon ran afoul of my greylisting daemon [3] (Amazon is acting as a proxy between me and the third-party company—neither one of us has the other's true email address). Checking the logs confirmed what I suspected happened: every attempt by Amazon to deliver the email came from a different IP (Internet Protocol) address, which caused the greylist daemon to treat each attempt as a separate email and thus, block each attempt. Sigh. Once that was cleared up, I got the story as to what happened. The third- party company had run out of the video card I requested, and since the card they sent contained the same connectors and amount of memory, they felt it would be acceptable. Had I the right drivers, it might have been acceptable. But I didn't, so it won't. The third-party company apologized for sending the wrong card. They also said they just received a new shipment of the video card I did order and they're sending one to me. All I need to do now is return the original card they sent back once I get the right card. So … round three! We shall see how this goes … [1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/01/20.2 [2] http://www.amazon.com/ [3] http://www.x-grey.com/ Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org .