Re: Postmaster verification failure - why? -SOLVED
On 13 Nov 2004, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:00, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I'm trying to post to a mailing list I'm subscribed to. The posts bounce
> > with this message:
> >
> >
> > Final-Recipient: rfc822; spamprobe-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Action: failed
> > Status: 5.0.0
> > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.sourceforge.net[66.35.250.206] said:
> > 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking <ac@acampbell.org.uk>
> > 550-(result of earlier verification reused). 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
> >
> >
> > I have put an entry in /etc/aliases and run newaliases:
> >
> > postmaster: ac@acampbell.org.uk
> >
> > This doesn't help, however. What is wrong here?
>
> I expect that the mail server at lists.sourceforge.net is attempting to call
> your mailserver with an "envelope to:" address of
> postmaster@acampbell.org.uk. How your mail server responds to this will give
> the answer.
>
> You don't say what mailserver you are using at your end.
>
After some more experimentation on the lines suggested by you and Alan
I've found the solution. I was putting postmaster as pointing to
ac@acampbell.org.uk, which is my domain name. However, the mailserver is
mail.uklinux.net, so I tried putting:
postmaster: accampbell@uklinux.net
(i.e. my username at uklinux.net) and this does work.
Anthony
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