Follow-up Comment #23, sr #106478 (project administration): First -- no need to send anything to sysadmin, Sylvain already did that yesterday with CC to you.
Second -- the link Sylvain gave in comment #17 is pretty descriptive. Before accepting the message, lists.gnu.org does this SMTP callback to ensure that the sender really exists. Let me try to emulate this in a live session. I'm connecting from my workstation at work to my mailserver at home: $ telnet yavor.doganov.org 25 Trying 213.91.245.92... Connected to yavor.doganov.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 yavor.doganov.org ESMTP Exim 4.69 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:11:54 +0300 ehlo southway-varna.com 250-yavor.doganov.org Hello bow.southway-varna.com [213.91.219.2] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-PIPELINING 250 HELP mail from: <> 250 OK rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 Unrouteable address rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 Unrouteable address rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 Accepted quit 221 yavor.doganov.org closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. So if I change my Savannah email address to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and try to commit, the notification message will get rejected in the same manner like yours (although with a different error). If I change it to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- this is a real address, and the callback returns success, so I guess there won't be any problems. Now let's do the same thing with you: $ telnet mx.pittle.org 25 Trying 65.254.254.51... Connected to mx.pittle.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 impinc02.yourhostingaccount.com NO UCE ESMTP server ready ehlo southway-varna.com 250-impinc02.yourhostingaccount.com hello [213.91.219.2], pleased to meet you 250-HELP 250-SIZE 34603008 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250 OK mail from: <> 250 2.1.0 <> sender ok rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 550 5.1.1 Host 213.91.219.2 error: B1.1.1 Connection closed by foreign host. I don't know what that means, as my knowledge about DNS is very poor (and so is for SMTP). lists.gnu.org uses Exim as most of the GNU servers, and I believe this particular feature is described at info "(exim4)Callout verification" Hope that helps identifying and solving the problem. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?106478> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/