Undelivered message being received by sender but i get the message

Monique Hennessy 0 Reputation points
2023-09-13T01:24:40.57+00:00

People outside my network are getting the following message when they send me an email - but I actually got the message.

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: 

[email address]
Remote server returned '554 5.4.0'

Reporting-MTA: dns; ME2P282MB0467 Final-recipient: RFC822; [email address] Action: failed Status: 5.4.0 X-Display-Name: [Name]

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  1. Faery Fu-MSFT 19,751 Reputation points Moderator
    2023-09-14T07:29:24.6433333+00:00

    Hi @Monique Hennessy ,

    According to my research, the "554 5.4.0" error is related with too many hops.

    If you are using Exchange hosted by Office 365, you can whitelist the sender's domain name in the spam filter in the Exchange admin section to see if it works.


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