On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> At 03:45 PM 1/7/2003 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
That was an email from over a month ago. But I do appreciate your reply.
> > 451 rejected: temporarily unable to verify envelope sender address (try
> > again later) <reed@???>
> Exim typically tries to lookup MX / A records for your domain.
>
> If your nameservers were returning a SERVFAIL in response to this query,
> then you might get this bounce.
The sourceforge server has a custom Exim with this custom message.
In this case, the particular sending email server had problems. The
callback tried to connect, but because of some RBL issue (if I recall
correctly), it had a very slow startup, so the sourceforge side timed out.
Jeremy C. Reed
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