[pfx] Re: relaying a 550 yields a defer

Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.postfix.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Randy Bush via Postfix-users:
> debian trixie, postfix 3.10.5-1~deb13u1
> 
> sender -> m0 -> psg.com
> 
> m0 is relaying recipients in bogus.com to psg.com, but should drop
> unknown users.  psg.com is correctly 550ing an unknown user
> 
>     m0.rg.net:/home/randy> telnet psg.com 25
>     Trying 2001:418:1::62...
>     Connected to psg.com.
>     Escape character is '^]'.
>     220 psg.com ESMTP Exim 4.98.2 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:47:06 +0000
>     EHLO m0.rg.net
>     250-psg.com Hello m0.rg.net [2001:418:3807::22]
>     250-SIZE 209715200
>     250-LIMITS MAILMAX=6 RCPTMAX=50000
>     250-8BITMIME
>     250-PIPELINING
>     250-PIPECONNECT
>     250-STARTTLS
>     250 HELP
>     MAIL FROM: [email protected]
>     250 OK
>     RCPT TO: [email protected]
>     550 unknown user

That's what happens NOW.

> but then postfix seems to be telling the sender to retry later 450.
> 
>     2026-04-09T23:15:36.547760+00:00 m0 postfix/smtpd[4892]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-australiaeastazrln10220002.outbound.protection.outlook.com[52.103.200.2]: 450 4.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: delivery temporarily suspended: connect to psg.com[147.28.0.62]:25: Connection timed out; from=<[email protected]> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<SY8PR01CU002.outbound.protection.outlook.com>

That is a cached error that hasn't expired yet.

	Wietse
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