Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Charles Marcus wrote:
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>> Are you doing SAV (Sender Address Verification)? You should NOT use SAV
>> for general mail reception, you should only do SAV probes for sending
>> domains you control and/or have gotten explicit permission to do SAV for.
>
> Not sure if that's enabled under a different name.
Sender Address Verification (SAV) is done in Postfix with the
reject_unverified_sender parameter; see postconf(5) for details. Before
employing this feature, make sure you understand its implications and read
the ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.
>> Disable SAV... you will never be able to receive mail from the big vendors
>> (gmail, hotmail, yahoo) if you are doing SAV probes all the time...
>
> I've had no problems -- and still don't -- receiving mail from gmail,
> hotmail, or yahoo accounts except for this one instance.
>
> The sender (@hotmail.com) is using another company's server
> (somedomain.com) between her and cox.net. It's that other company's server
> to which I cannot trace the route and where dig and whois do not supply the
> same IP address and domain name.
There are several references to access(5) maps in your main.cf; do any of
them have reject_unverified_sender as an action on the RHS? Check with:
# grep reject_unverified_sender /path/to/maps/folder/*
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Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
