[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106478] After committed to www project's (www.gnu.org) webpages repo, a commit message won't be sent on www-commits mailing list

[Yavor Doganov]

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: <address@hidden>
550 Unrouteable address
rcpt to: <address@hidden>
550 Unrouteable address
rcpt to: <address@hidden>
250 Accepted
quit
221 yavor.doganov.org closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

So if I change my Savannah email address to <address@hidden> 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
<address@hidden> -- 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: <address@hidden>
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.

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