I use Google Apps to handle email for my personal website, so I have an email address
[email protected] through that, and I also have a Gmail account
[email protected]. Now, I've been trying to send emails to a particular recipient who shall be known as
[email protected]. When I send
the email from my Gmail account with
the @gmail.com address, it works fine. However, when I send it from my Google Apps account with
the @ellipsix.net address, I get a bounce message which includes
the following text:
Delivery to
the following recipient failed permanently:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by
the recipient domain. We recommend contacting
the other email provider for further information about
the cause of this error.
The error that
the other server returned was: 554 554 mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0) (state 17).
The bounce message suggests that it is up to
the mail administrator of
the recipient domain example.com to fix
the problem, whatever it is. But I would like to be as sure as possible that nothing needs to be fixed on my end. I already have DKIM signatures enabled for my domain, and I have published an SPF DNS record. Is there something else I should check or do, or can I be confident that it's up to
the recipient to fix this issue? Does
the "state 17" in
the bounce message mean something relevant?
I've included my domain name in
the question so people who know more than me about this stuff can independently check
the relevant DNS records or other information.
This other question seems similar, but I've already investigated everything suggested in
the answers there (except for contacting Google, which I don't want to do unless I suspect it's their issue to fix).
