Re: BUG #5012: mailing list VERP addresses not sender-verifiable - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Gergely
Czuczy<gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu> wrote:
> AFAIK exim generates a bounce to test the address, and for that I'm
> getting a reject saying that the user is unknown for the VERP address.
>
> Aug 26 04:02:05 hostname exim[70819]: H=mx1.hub.org
> [200.46.208.106] sender verify fail for <pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>: response
> to "RCPT
> TO:<pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>"
> from mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.106] was: 550 5.1.1
> <pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>:
> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table

That's odd. When I tested it I got a 450 greylist. That causes the
mailer to hold the email and then resend again later. My email didn't
have the "=foo=bar.baz" component though, just +M0000.



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