550 Relay not permitted
Hi All,
I have a problem with one of our customers. We installed an exchange server at his premises last year and so far sending / receiving email has been fine.
A few days ago our customer started getting the following error when sending or replying to email from our company.
email@emailaddress.com on 28/01/2008 09:38
There was a smtp communication problem with the recipents email server.
Please contact your system administrator.
<server.domain.int # 5.5.0 smtp;550 relay not permitted>
At this stage i am trying to discover if this is a problem with our customers exchange server or is it a problem with our excahnge server? We do not have any block lists setup and i am told my customer can email other companies without any real problem, however i am also informed this problem is experienced with a hand full of other email addresses.
Any help on this would be very helpful
Thank you
I have a problem with one of our customers. We installed an exchange server at his premises last year and so far sending / receiving email has been fine.
A few days ago our customer started getting the following error when sending or replying to email from our company.
email@emailaddress.com on 28/01/2008 09:38
There was a smtp communication problem with the recipents email server.
Please contact your system administrator.
<server.domain.int # 5.5.0 smtp;550 relay not permitted>
At this stage i am trying to discover if this is a problem with our customers exchange server or is it a problem with our excahnge server? We do not have any block lists setup and i am told my customer can email other companies without any real problem, however i am also informed this problem is experienced with a hand full of other email addresses.
Any help on this would be very helpful
Thank you
...the previous expert's questions are appreciated!
Are you running any kind of filter on your mail such as the Intelligent Message FIlter from Microsoft? If Yahoo is one of the domains the client's email system is having problems with there is a good chance that you just need a reverse DNS entry - been seeing a lot of this lately...pretty common these days for admins to have their servers perform a reverse DNS lookup. Just make sure that if the mail server reports to be <some.server.com> then there should be a DNS entry for <some.server.com> with the IP for your server.
Are you running any kind of filter on your mail such as the Intelligent Message FIlter from Microsoft? If Yahoo is one of the domains the client's email system is having problems with there is a good chance that you just need a reverse DNS entry - been seeing a lot of this lately...pretty common these days for admins to have their servers perform a reverse DNS lookup. Just make sure that if the mail server reports to be <some.server.com> then there should be a DNS entry for <some.server.com> with the IP for your server.
Any joy with our suggestions?
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Hi and thanks for your suggestions, i am very sorry for the late reply, my customer is a little backwards about coming forward with information and there seems to be a time delay. Unable to send email is a big cause of this i suspect.
The customer has advised me no changes have been made to any of the infrastructure or ISP.
if i ping the mail server
ping mail.mvue.uk.net
i get the following results
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=56
Ping statistics for 91.84.58.252:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 54ms, Average = 52ms
I can confirm the exchange server routes email using DNS, mx records have been created successfully and as previously mentioned everything was working without fault until recently.
There are no filters applied to mail routing.
I am very intersted in how to set a reverse dns entry? can i have step by step instructions for this? thanks again
The customer has advised me no changes have been made to any of the infrastructure or ISP.
if i ping the mail server
ping mail.mvue.uk.net
i get the following results
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=54ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=56
Reply from 91.84.58.252: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=56
Ping statistics for 91.84.58.252:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% l
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 54ms, Average = 52ms
I can confirm the exchange server routes email using DNS, mx records have been created successfully and as previously mentioned everything was working without fault until recently.
There are no filters applied to mail routing.
I am very intersted in how to set a reverse dns entry? can i have step by step instructions for this? thanks again
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This message can appear if you use say BT for your internet connection, and then attempt to send email through AOL outgoing server. hence why I asked the question whether they have change ISP or indeed whether the ISP they do use may have changed their outgoing server address?