[plug] gmail blocking

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Tue Jul 12 22:47:32 WST 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:00 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> Anyone help me decipher the error message received when using my gmail
> account to post to the Xfce list.  I send direct from evolution - rather
> than the web interface - using account settings of "smtp.gmail.com" as
> my sending (MX?) agent: 
> 
> --------- copy of reject message ------------------
> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
> 
>      xfce at xfce.org
> 
> Technical details of permanent failure: 
> PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 10): 554 Service unavailable; Client
> host [zproxy.gmail.com] blocked using dsn.rfc-ignorant.org; Not
> supporting null originator (DSN)

Looks like gmail refuses to talk to the xfce.org MX because the xfce.org
MX rejects mails (usually bounces) which use:

MAIL FROM: <>

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Craig Ringer




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