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Postby Cerebrum2 » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:20 pm

Hi, I was trying to send email to a sourceforge mailing list through spamgourmet, but I got the following error message. How do I fix this? "xxxxxx@spamgourmet.com" is my spamgourmet email address:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
(reason: 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking <xxxxxx@spamgourmet.com>)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.sourceforge.net.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking <xxxxxx@spamgourmet.com>
<<< 550-Called: 216.75.35.134
<<< 550-Sent: RCPT TO:<postmaster@spamgourmet.com>
<<< 550-Response: 554 5.7.1 ERRINV: rejected - no such user or invalid syntax
<<< 550-Several RFCs state that you are required to have a postmaster
<<< 550-mailbox for each mail domain. This host does not accept mail
<<< 550-from domains whose servers reject the postmaster address.
<<< 550 Sender verify failed
550 5.1.1 <alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net>... User unknown
<<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
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Postby SysKoll » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:02 pm

Josh, does that mean that we have a missing postmaster element in our MX record?
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Postby josh » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:21 pm

that error looks like they tried to send a test message to postmaster at spamgourmet.com, and it got rejected by the server -- they're right about the RFC, but I'm not sure how they got the error. We explicitly do accept mail for postmaster (even if we don't read it :) ), and my tests all work. I'll keep looking into it.
Last edited by josh on Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Postby josh » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:22 pm

ah - you know what -- it's the angle brackets they used around the address -- I'll fix that.
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Postby josh » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:25 pm

ok, I fixed it -- it should work now. Thanks for the post.
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Postby Cerebrum2 » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:58 pm

I just tried it and it works! Thanks a lot!
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