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email with attachment from certain domains is refused delivery

Greetings. We have in place a Barracuda 400. A few months ago, emails with attachments larger than 1 or 2mb, from just two domains, are refused and eventually returned to the sender. If either of these domains send an email with no attachment, or smaller attachments, the message will be delivered. There is nothing in the logs on the Barracuda to indicate a problem. The message is not Blocked or Quarantined. Both the sender and I have tried to figure out the problem and have come up with nothing. My last resort is to try and monitor the connection from the logs on our Firewall, which I'll be trying soon. In the meantime, has anyone come across this before?

Sudeep Sharma

When the messages are refused are they even reaching the Mail Server at all?

Did you checked the mail server also if there is anything there about those messages?

Sudeep

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No, they do not appear to be reaching the Exchange server. I have checked the mail and do not find any reference to the messages sent. I will try to find a copy of the NDR they receive and attach it to my question.

Thank you

jrlingam

Hi

1. Is there any mail gateway device located between the 2 domains. If yes, then please check the same.

2. What is the maximum message size for external emails that is set up in the sender domain. In my experience, most of these issues will be because the mail has crossed the maximum permissible size.

Also please provide us the NDR if any received by the sender.

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Thank you for your reply.

1. There is not a gateway on our end. The sender has a similar SPAM/Anti-Virus appliance we use that their email passess through before transmitting to a recipient.

2. I'm not sure of their max size, however the same email that does not make it to a recipient in our domain is successfully delivered to my personal email account and another business account I have. This appears to point to a problem at our end, however I'm unable to find the cause.

I will be testing again with the client this afternoon. I'm going to monitor the logs on our Firewall in the hopes of seeing what happnes to their initial connection. The only NDR message they receive is the text I attached to my previous comment. If you were unable to view that let me know and I'll try to re-attach it.

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Coincidentally, I have learned that the two domains we are experiencing this issue with use Cisco IronPort appliances. If there are any experts knowledgeble with that appliance perhaps they can come up with some possible causes? I was able to view their connections through our Firewall, which were reported as successful. So, the problem does appear to be the connection to our Barracuda SPAM appliance.

Thanks,

Terry

Sudeep Sharma

As you have mentioned that they are using Cisco Ironport Mail Appliances, so please check on the senderbase is your mail servers IP addresses are listed there.

http://www.senderbase.org

Sudeep

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I do not find our mail server listed on this site. Thanks Sudeep.

Terry

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