How to troubleshooting the mail error: 550 unroutable address in linux.
Email is abbreviated by Electronic Mail. Information stored on a computer that is exchanged between two users over telecommunications. E-mail is a message that may contain text, files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals. When sending an email it should required some fields of data.Three are To , From if you are replying to a message, the To: and From: fields are automatically filled out. The Subject should consist of a few words describing the e-mail's contents.Finally, the Message Body is the location you type your main message. The error ‘550-Unroutable address’ occurs due to the routing issues that happen in this mail delivery process, which can be due to either the recipient or sender problems. The unroutable mail domain error message is a very general error message of mail server which could means a lot of things and possible causes of error. This type of error can be due to a variety of reasons. The recipient's email address might be misspelled. You also might have exceeded the maximum number of e-mails you are allowed to send per hour, in which case you should allow some time and then resend the mail. Your mail server might also be unable to determine the correct route to send your email message because of a DNS configuration error with the recipient domain's MX records. This can be addressed by the owner of the recipient address. Reasons and solutions: 1.Sending Emails to a Non-Existent Recipient Domain : When the email is delivered to a non-existing recipient domain, it shows a ‘550-Unroutable address’ error. Another reason for the error is when the user sends an email with a wrong typo in the email address.So if the recipient email addresses are wrong, the emails would not be delivered and would bounce back to the sender by giving an error message. Solution : The solution here is to validate the recipient email address while sending the emails and check whether the domain is neither expired nor deactivated 2.Incorrect MX Records for the Recipient Domain : The sender email server will not be able to route correctly to the recipient email server unless the MX records are set properly for the recipient domain. If there is any error in the DNS settings for the recipient domain, the other external emails servers render the email delivery as unreachable. Solution: So always verify whether the MX records are correctly set for the recipient or not. 3.Email exceeds per hour : In email server such as Exim, the number of emails a domain can send out every hour has a limit. After the limit exceeds, the emails would bounce back to the sender by displaying the error ‘550-Unroutable address’.Wrong routing of the domain, where the mails are routing to remote server instead of local mail server, can also end up giving email error 550. Anti-spam firewalls or certain security rules in the recipient mail server can lead to email bounces with 550 error. 4.Verification Failure: The sender’s mail server or recipient’s mail server may also has sender verification turns on, in which if the verification fails, you will have 550 unroutable error. However, the root cause is still related to DNS problem mentioned above as the setting enables check and verify if the MX record of the sender is valid.