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Problems with incoming email

Hello,

Need help on this tricky problem.

Current setup:

- Email to domain XYZ.COM is first sent to an ISP that receives all email to this domain. Then their so called MailFeeder service sends all email (no filtering) to our mailserver which stands on local LAN with a firewall between.
- The mailserver is a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server with Window Server 2003 Enterprise Server beneth. The server has Symantec Mail Security for Exchange as the primary virus and spam filtering software.

Problem

- Occasionally email sent to different recipients on our mailserver does not get thru. Senders get the following response:
(This response message is sent to the original sender from MAILER-DAEMON@nexus.tripnet.se, which is the ISPs mailfeed server).

"This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
The following adress (es) failed:

abc@xyz.com

I said;
DATA
and then I sent the mail content

Server answerd:
550 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: message refused"

The ISP says that this error is happening at our mailserver, and that our server is the problem. But I´ve checked the message tracking log and cannot find any outgoing error messages such as the one above, which indicates that the problem could be at the ISP.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Our mailserver is configured as recommended with dns servers, smtp settings etc in Exchange.

Thanks,
Joe
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Unfortunately message tracking will not show this message going out as it is an SMTP NDR. That means that your server didn't actually generate a message - it told the sending server that it was refusing the message and the sending server generated the failure message.

The key thing with an NDR is to see what server rejected the message. This will either be an IP address or DNS name. Have you seen that to see which server did the reject?

Simon.
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No, where can I see an NDR for this type of problem?

As I wrote, the above error message was sent back to the original sender from the ISP.
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