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ERRMSG: 550 Unable to relay for

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This article applies to:

  • MailMarshal (SEG)

Symptoms:

  • An outbound message is not delivered to a remote recipient
  • The local sender may receive a non-delivery report
  • The MailMarshal Sender log shows an error response similar to the following:
    RX: <550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for a@b.c>

Causes:

  • This error is not generated by MailMarshal and in almost every case the issue is not a MailMarshal issue.
  • The mail server that MailMarshal tries to send the message to is rejecting the mesage.
  • DNS Mail Exchanger or A records that are published for the recipient domain point to a server that does not accept mail for the domain.

Resolution:

  1. Verify that MailMarshal does not have a custom routing configured for the recipient domain.
  2. Contact the recipient organization to report the issue and find the acceptable domains.

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