Greetings,

On a recent toaster installation (0.6) with chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch, I
recently had issues subscribing to the Spam Assassin announcement
mailing list
(http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-announce).
Upon sending the confirmation email to finish subscription to the
mailing list, I received the attached bounceback that stated:
"550-Response: 553 sorry, your envelope sender has been denied
(#5.7.1)".  I inquired as to why this was the case and received this
response:

Hi Mike --

sourceforge.net servers will attempt to use callback verification via RCPT
TO, to verify that your email address can *receive* mail.  I don't know
why.  But that's why it's failing.

- --j.


I then looked into what "callback verification via RCPT TO" was all about. Apparently it is some way of verifying the person who sent the email has a valid email account on the host their email address indicates. It is also appears to be somewhat controversial as well:

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg08450.html

Is there any reason why this would not work on a toaster install?
Possibly related to the chkuser-0.6.mysql.patch?  I never had this
problem running LWQ + vpopmail.  I don't know if this matters, but I did
send/relay the confirmation email through the toaster server via TLS on
port 2525.  My install also has echo 1 > /var/qmail/control/mfcheck.

I am not overly concerned that I cannot easily subscribe to the SA
announcement mailing list.  I am more concerned that perhaps I did
something wrong on setting up the mail server in question.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Mike





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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at extranet.contactdesigns.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
66.35.250.206 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550-Verification failed for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
550-Called:   64.242.33.3
550-Sent:     RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
550-Response: 553 sorry, your envelope sender has been denied (#5.7.1)
550 Sender verify failed
Giving up on 66.35.250.206.

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:35:52 -0700
From: Mike McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Spamassassin-announce -- confirmation of subscription -- request
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Spamassassin-announce -- confirmation of subscription -- request
>376294
>
>We have received a request from 10.3.1.8 for subscription of your
>email address, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, to the
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.  To confirm
>the request, please send a message to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], and either:
>
>- maintain the subject line as is (the reply's additional "Re:" is
>ok),
>
>- or include the following line - and only the following line - in the
>message body: 
>
>confirm 376294
>
>(Simply sending a 'reply' to this message should work from most email
>interfaces, since that usually leaves the subject line in the right
>form.)
>
>If you do not wish to subscribe to this list, please simply disregard
>this message.  Send questions to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>  
>




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