[Savannah-hackers] Re: [gnu.org #216349] unable to subscribe with gmail.com-address

[Sylvain Beucler via RT]

My bad, I went too quickly through this request :/

I'll investigate some more and give you a better status.

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:14:45AM -0500, James Blair via RT wrote:
> > address@hidden - Thu Dec 02 15:21:38 2004]:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Apparently there is a problem common with Savannah and SF:
> 
> I think there are two things at work here:
> 
> > RCPT TO: address@hidden
> > 550 relay not permitted
> 
> This is just our mail system not being an open relay.  That's normal. 
> Mail from a mailing list to gmail will get through.
> 
> 
> > Original Submission: I am not able to subscribe to mailing lists on
> > savannah using a gmail.com-address. I enter my address
> > "address@hidden" together with the password information.
> 
> > The subscription is then rejected with the following reason: "Your 
> > subscription is not allowed because the email address you gave is 
> > insecure."
> 
> I think this is a normal mailman error that results from not providing
> an appropriate subscription confirmation.