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I have domains on two servers: example.edu.au and example.camp

When I try and send an email (through Exim, SMTP) from [email protected] to [email protected] I get a bounced email with "Sender Verify Failed".

What could be causing this Sender Verify to fail, when the email is coming from one of my servers to the other server? How could I troubleshoot this?

I can send from example.edu.au to example.camp with no problems. Other than this specific example, I can send and receive from both these emails without any trouble.

2017-01-24 23:39:11 1cWAg0-0000qw-MZ ** [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.example.edu.au [45.56.85.76] X=TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128 CV=no: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: 550-Verification failed for <[email protected]> 550-Unrouteable address 550 Sender verify failed

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  • Your sender email address is invalid. Jan 25, 2017 at 0:08
  • The sender email address [email protected] is valid. I can send and receive emails fine in 99% of cases. Only when sending an email from this address to an address on my second server does the sender verify fail.
    – Emmanuel
    Jan 25, 2017 at 0:10

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550-Unrouteable address 550 Sender verify failed

Means the exim server cannot resolve MX/A records for the domain and you have sender verification turned on.

More on this subject in the documentation

If you can, log into the server running exim for example.edu.au and run dig MX mus.camp, although RFC spec says you can use A record or MX records.

TLDR; Sounds like a DNS Issue.

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  • dig MX example.camp from the server running Exim for example.edu.au results in: ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;example.camp. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: example.camp. 2869 IN MX 10 server01-aus.emanwebdesign.com. example.camp. 2869 IN MX 0 server01-aus.emanwebdesign.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: example.camp. 2869 IN NS ns10.domaincontrol.com. example.camp. 2869 IN NS ns09.domaincontrol.com.
    – Emmanuel
    Jan 25, 2017 at 0:47
  • do those MX records resolve? Jan 25, 2017 at 1:00
  • Yes, resolves to 107.191.56.29. RDNS is fine too.
    – Emmanuel
    Jan 25, 2017 at 2:02
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If you are using WHM(WebHostManager) then you can stop SPF check through the below path : WHM: Main >> Service Configuration >> Exim Configuration Editor >> Standard Options >> Mail >>Sender Verification Try this on mail.example.edu.au server

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  • Not using WHM unfortunately.
    – Emmanuel
    Jan 26, 2017 at 0:49

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