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Posted: **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

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:02 pm**

Josh, does that mean that we have a missing postmaster element in our MX record?

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:25 pm**

ok, I fixed it -- it should work now. Thanks for the post.

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:58 pm**

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