Re: Error subscribing new mailing list.

Robert Pluim <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:00:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Albinus <[email protected]> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Hi Lars,
>
>>> Request adding this list to the Gmane archive...Your address
>>> [email protected] is invalid: Initial greeting: 554-gmx.net
>>> (mxgmx116) Nemesis ESMTP Service not available 554-No SMTP service
>>> 554-Bad DNS PTR resource record. 554 For explanation visit
>>> https://www.gmx.net/mail/senderguidelines?ip=116.202.254.214&c=rdns
>>> Process check connection broken by remote peer
>>
>> Gmane verifies the sender address by doing an SMTP callout, and
>> apparently your SMTP server is refusing the access from the Gmane
>> server?
>
> Since I receive emails from everybody else, there might be be a problem
> in your verification procedure. I wanted to let you know; you could ignore.

I think this is gmx insisting on a valid reverse DNS for
116.202.254.214, but that exists:

nslookup -q=PTR 116.202.254.214
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
214.254.202.116.in-addr.arpa	name = static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de.

Authoritative answers can be found from: