Re: Where does "Downstream server error" come from?

[Bryan Tong <contact () nullivex com>]

I was thinking that maybe the rogue host configured on the IP didn't have
any mail software installed and it was just a random service returning the
error message as it didn't know how to handle the request.

On Sunday, January 19, 2014, Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com> wrote:

> On 1/19/14, 5:32 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
>
> > I've come across this error (or something very similar to it) before.  I
> > can't remember the exact product, but it turned out to be a transparent
> > SMTP proxy somewhere in the path - possibly on a UTM firewall, but I could
> > be wrong about that part...
> >
> > Not overly helpful I know, but might point you in the right direction...
>
> Almost sounds like one of those annoying consumer Antivirus programs with
> the smtp/imap/pop3 proxies that wedge themselves in between mail client
> connections.
>
> Trying to remember what the error it was giving the other day on the
> machine I worked on, when the proxy itself had been blocked by the local
> system's firewall...
>
> I'd have been curious if you got the same error message trying to go out
> on 587 instead of 25.
>
> Thinking about it, that error screams of something like what a
> multi-server Exchange setup would say if something went wrong on the
> backend.
>
>
> Not entirely helpful either, but...  never know.
>
>
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> Brielle Bruns
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