Re: My provider rejects the authentication email

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:24:23 +0800, "Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> said:

    Felix> When I try to post to
    Felix>     gmane.comp.graphics.darktable.user

    Felix> then my newsreaders, GNUS and Thunderbird, report a cryptic error
    Felix> message:

    Felix> “441 You need a valid email address to post: Invalid response from SMTP
    Felix> server mail.inka.de: 550-Verification failed for <[email protected]>”

    Felix> So I contacted the admin of mail.inka.de. He said, roughly translated by
    Felix> me from German:

    Felix> “They also ask (apparently on POST) via SMTP whether your email address
    Felix> exists. But it doesn’t make sense to do that with an email address that
    Felix> itself is not deliverable:

    Felix>     2020-07-13 15:04:30 H=static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de
    Felix>     (ciao.gmane.io) [116.202.254.214] F=<[email protected]> rejected
    Felix>     RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed

    >> exim -bt [email protected]
    Felix>     [email protected] is undeliverable: Unrouteable address

    Felix> That triggers our Sender Verify, which says: go away.”

    Felix> *Any idea what to do? Is there another way to verify my email address?*

    Felix> (using another email address is not an option)


Thatʼs something that Lars needs to fix. Hopefully he's reading this
group.

Robert