amarok-backtraces to amarok-backtraces at lists.sf.net

[John Summerfield]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 08:28 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> amorak seems a little fragile, but has this cool feature such that it 
>> reports them to amarok-backtraces at lists.sf.net
>>
>> Unfortunately, amarok-backtraces at lists.sf.net declines them when I send 
>> them, and I don't understand why. Here is the message I get:
>>
>> <amarok-backtraces at lists.sf.net>: host mail.sourceforge.net[66.35.250.206]
>>      said: 550-Verification failed for <xxxxxx at js.id.au> 550-Called:
>>      58.6.192.22 550-Sent:     RCPT TO:<xxxxxx at js.id.au> 550-Response: 554
>>      <xxxxxx at js.id.au>: Relay access denied 550 Sender verify failed (in 
>> reply
>>      to RCPT TO command)
>>
>>
>> I've carefully obfuscated my email address, but the rest is as in my 
>> bounce message.
>>
>> I don't understand how it's trying to verify the sender address, but the 
>> sender address is correct and able to receive email - hence the need to 
>> obfuscate it.
>>
>> Do others have this problem, and if so what are you doing? Binning the 
>> crashes?
> 
> One of two things: First, if a reverse DNS lookup of your IP address
> doesn't match the domain of your email address, they may reject you.

If they do that, they're seriously broken for anyone who hosts multiple 
domains.

> 
> Second, if they connect to your mail server and send your email address
> as a "RCPT TO" command and your mail server rejects it, they reject you.

I didn't see any evidence of that, and I looked.




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