Super helpful. Thanks.

This may be a stupid question, but can you help me understand what
"Remote-MTA" means in this context? I'm a little confused as to how that
works.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Brandon Long <bl...@google.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Aaron Richton <rich...@nbcs.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Luke Martinez via mailop wrote:
>>
>> Some G Suite domains are returning this response to us long after the
>>> messages are delivered. More of a curiosity than anything else. Wondering
>>> if anyone has seen this behavior before.
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Reporting-MTA: dns; googlemail.com
>>> Received-From-MTA: dns; bounces+2323606-70a0-ccrawford=
>>> spotsylvania.k12.va...@sendmail.joezooapp.com
>>> Arrival-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:45:07 -0800 (PST)
>>> X-Original-Message-ID: <EFwvC250TXmBEZae6eaHrw@ismtpd
>>> 0005p1iad1.sendgrid.net>
>>>
>>> Final-Recipient: rfc822; ccrawf...@spotsylvania.k12.va.us
>>> Action: failed
>>> Status: 4.4.2
>>> Remote-MTA: dns; 205.174.120.102 (205.174.120.102, the server for the
>>> domain.)
>>> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; read error: generic::failed_precondition: read
>>> error (0): error
>>> Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:37:18 -0800 (PST)
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> It sounds like this is a generic "they didn't talk the protocol I wanted"
>> from the G Suite MTA (which presumably is trying to forward/cc/etc. from
>> b...@google.hosted.us --> onpremises@[205.174.120.102] living under
>> spotsylvania.k12.va.us.)
>>
>> Seeing that a connection to 205.174.120.102:25 smells like a PIX, it's
>> quite likely that Google is getting some awful Ciscoized SMTP, which may
>> indeed not be the protocol they want.
>>
>> If you have available bandwidth to Fix The World, pinging
>> spotsylvania.k12.va.us to check their SMTP logs (especially at any
>> middleboxes in the way) might be enlightening. Or in the event my crystal
>> ball is fully functional today just point them to:
>>
>> https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/42809-cisco-asa-disa
>> ble-smtp-fixup-in-asdm
>
>
> Yeah, that error from us basically means that the remote server hung up
> while we were waiting for data.
>
> And yeah, they get a bunch of errors every day for that, you could try
> mailing postmas...@spotsylvania.k12.va.us
>
> Brandon
>
>


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