Problem sending to Alioth lists?

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:12:41PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 20:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Is the mailing list software on Alioth broken or misconfigured?  If I
> > send from any host on my network other than the one which happens to be
> > the mail server, I get this error when I send to an Alioth list:
> > 
> > Aug 27 17:26:48 santiago postfix/smtp[23682]: 4A8002403D:
> > to=<pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
> > relay=lists.alioth.debian.org[192.25.206.28], delay=21,
> > status=deferred (host lists.alioth.debian.org[192.25.206.28] said:
> > 451 Could not complete sender verify callout (in reply to RCPT TO
> > command))
> 
> Alioth is doing a callout to verify that bounces can be delivered to
> you. The error code should just defer the message until it can be
> delivered, or until your mail queue gives up. If your mail queue gives
> up immediately, it will cause a bounce to you no matter what. There are
> other possible causes as well.
> 
> So make sure there is an MX that will accept messages to your envelope
> address at least when your mail queue is being run, and make sure it
> does queue properly. It's possible that alioth will make the callout to
> the sending host (which would not be a good idea), or that your envelope
> sender is not a deliverable address (likely, based on your description).
> You'll have to debug a little to make your mail system work. You can
> probably get advice on Debian-ISP.

I have a an MX.  The thing is that my workstation (miami) does not have
any Internet-accesible mail server on it (postfix being configured to
use a smarthost and so not needing to receive mail from the world).
Anyhow, apparently the problem was with the Envelope-From header, which
was being sent to roberto at miami and which caused Alioth to not be able
to verify that mail can be received at that address.

Anyhow, I had posted the same question to debian-devel and in this
thread Adeodato provided a workable solution:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg01225.html

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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