Andréas Berg writes:

I've been looking at logs on both sides and I can find no reason for the
556 error. I get why the local delivery and the delivery from the second
server fail as it could enter an infinite loop but the 556 I cannot
understand.

The 556 error is generated as part of backscatter suppression. When Courier encounters a delivery failure for a specific email address, Courier stops accepting messages to the same recipient address for a short period of time.

The 556 error is the result of previous errors. In this case, as best as I can decipher your errors, you experienced a delivery failure to a specific address, so Courier stopped accepting email to that same address, for 1-2 hours. After the address expires, mail gets once again accepted for the given recipient address.

But, I think that backscatter suppression should not be activated for messages that get dropped into couriermlm. I that this needs a fix.

You can try this fix: change the command in .courier that invokes couriermlm from "| couriermlm msg [directory]" to "| couriermlm msg [directory] || exit 70". Similar change for .courier-default.

Also, the empty and the #@[] from addresses I see, is that intended or
have we missed something in our configuration?

This is normal. It's one of the mechanisms that prevents endless bounce loops.

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