Yan Li schrieb am Wednesday, den 12. August 2009:

Hi, 

> Debian's mailing list server rejected my mail:
>   debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org
>     SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT 
> TO:<debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org>:
>     host liszt.debian.org [2001:41b8:202:deb:213:21ff:fe20:1426]:
>     550 5.1.7 
> <batv+0b6ed68e040c37e8d30b+2175+infradead.org+ya...@bombadil.srs.infradead.org>:
>     Sender address rejected: undeliverable address:
>     host bombadil.infradead.org[2001:4830:2446:ff00:214:51ff:fe65:c65c] said:
>     550 Invalid SRS bounce  (in reply to RCPT TO command)
> 
> 
> I've consulted my mail server admin and he said:
> 
> "(Debian mailing list's) Postfix does a strange and broken thing, and
> it does sender verification callouts (to check that an address exists)
> using a non-empty sender. I've seen this before, but usually it uses
> "postmaster@" as the address, so I have a special hack to accept mail
> from postmaster@ to the signed addresses. I've now added another hack
> to accept mail from double-bounce@ too, which is what lists.debian.org
> is doing -- but it would be much better if they'd fix their callouts
> to use the _empty_ sender as they should."
This is not debian postfix special. In fact its postix default [1].
But we are currently discussion if we should change the default. 


Alex - debian listmaster

[1] http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#address_verify_sender



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