Re: smartmontools mailinglist question

On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:11, Jørn Dahl-Stamnes
<newsmanDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

Due to problem with getting smartmontools to work on my FC4 server, I
subscribed to the smartmontools-support mailing list.
[snip]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mail.sourceforge.net.:
DATA
<<< 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking
<my-email-addresse>
<<< 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
550 5.1.1 <smartmontools-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... User
unknown <<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA

It seems like they try to check if there is a postmaster or
my-email-addresse


postmaster

at my domain but complain that one or both does not
exists, which is BS.

Whilst it is true that postmaster at dahl-stamnes.net exists, it is also
apparent that mail.sourceforge.net failed to find a postmaster@ address
for whatever domain you had in the sender's address - perhaps you had
munged it in a similar way to what you have done for this news post?

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