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

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 21:04, Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Gergely Czuczy 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
> >
> > Huh, I guess this was broken recently, because it's been working.  I'll
> > ask the sysadmin team.
>
> That's not maintained by the sysadmin team. You need to ask hub.org.

I know that very well, which is why I emailed Marc Fournier.  The PG
sysadmin team was also copied because they need to be aware of the
issue.

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