Re: BUG #5012: mailing list VERP addresses not sender-verifiable

Gergely Czuczy wrote:
> AFAIK exim generates a bounce to test the address, and for that I'm
> getting a reject saying that the user is unknown for the VERP address.
>
> Aug 26 04:02:05 hostname exim[70819]: H=mx1.hub.org
> [200.46.208.106] sender verify fail for <pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>: response
> to "RCPT
> TO:<pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>"
> from mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.106] was: 550 5.1.1
> <pgsql-announce-owner+M1580=phoemix=harmless.hu@postgresql.org>:
> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table

Huh, I guess this was broken recently, because it's been working.  I'll
ask the sysadmin team.

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