Re: My provider rejects the authentication email

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jul 2020 01:14:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Felix E. Klee" <[email protected]> writes:

> So I contacted the admin of mail.inka.de. He said, roughly translated by
> me from German:
>
> “They also ask (apparently on POST) via SMTP whether your email address
> exists. But it doesn’t make sense to do that with an email address that
> itself is not deliverable:
>
>     2020-07-13 15:04:30 H=static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de
>     (ciao.gmane.io) [116.202.254.214] F=<[email protected]> rejected
>     RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed

Thanks; I've now fixed the SMTP callout mechanism to use a valid FROM
address ([email protected] instead of the m-less one).

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