{"id":714,"date":"2007-02-24T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/sender-verify-failed-with-incorrect.htm"},"modified":"2007-03-05T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:11:03","slug":"sender-verify-failed-with-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/sender-verify-failed-with-incorrect.htm","title":{"rendered":"Sender verify failed with incorrect reverse DNS record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a week!  Switching hosting providers, setting up a new content management system for this blog (more on that as soon as it&#8217;s ready) and all at the same time as suffering e-mail problems as, since the middle of the week, every e-mail that I&#8217;ve sent to a particular contact has bounced back with the following message:<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Delivery to the following recipients failed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>someone<em>@<\/em>somewhere<em>.net<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporting-MTA: dns;<\/em>mymailserver<em>.markwilson.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Final-Recipient: rfc822;<\/em>someone<em>@<\/em>somewhere<em>.net<br \/>\nAction: failed<br \/>\nStatus: 5.5.0<br \/>\nDiagnostic-Code: smtp;550-Verification failed for &lt;<\/em>myalias<em>@markwilson.co.uk&gt;<br \/>\n550-No Such User Here<br \/>\n550 Sender verify failed <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have various anti-spam measures on my mail server, but this appeared to be a problem when sending mail to a particular external host &#8211; e-mail sent to the same contact via a different mail server was received with no problems.<\/p>\n<p>I set about researching the <em>550 Sender verify failed<\/em> message and found various suggestions as to what might cause such an error &#8211; the most useful of which was <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.co.uk\/group\/microsoft.public.exchange.admin\/browse_frm\/thread\/12710f767499c536\">a message on a newsgroup post which suggested it may be caused by an incorrect reverse DNS (PTR) record<\/a> (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/benw\/\">Ben Winzenz<\/a> for replying to that group a couple of years ago).<\/p>\n<p>Even though much of my mail was being delivered successfully, that seemed like a perfectly reasonable explanation &#8211; the reverse lookup for my IP address would have returned a hostname in the format <em>username<\/em>.<em>myisp<\/em>.co.uk, rather than <em>mymailserver<\/em>.markwilson.co.uk (as confirmed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnsreport.com\/tools\/dnsreport.ch?domain=markwilson.co.uk\">a DNS report on my domain<\/a>, which also commented that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnsstuff.com\/pages\/rfc1912.htm\">RFC1912<\/a> 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry&#8221;), so I set about getting the record updated by my ISP (it has to be done by the owner of the IP address block).<\/p>\n<p>Initially I asked my ISP to add my mail server&#8217;s DNS name as a second PTR record for my IP address but in practice I found that DNS responded in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Round_robin_DNS\">round robin<\/a> pattern (rather than returning all the matching records) so I couldn&#8217;t rely on a consistent response and was still experiencing mail delivery failures.  Finally, after reverting to a single PTR record for my IP address and waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/webhosting.devshed.com\/c\/a\/Web-Hosting-Articles\/What-is-DNS-propagation-and-why-does-it-take-so-long\/\">DNS propagation<\/a> (again), I was able to successfully send e-mail to the contact with whom I&#8217;d previously experienced issues (phew!).<\/p>\n<p>As more and more hosts take action to prevent unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE &#8211; also known as spam), this is likely to be a more common occurrence and it just underlines how important a correct DNS configuration is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week! 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