We have a bunch of satellite offices that relay through our corporate mail
gateway.  The mail gateway handles things like scan-to-email from copiers,
email from our internal fax gateway, etc...

Starting Monday morning-ish Google has been one of a few things apparently
at random:
* Accepting the message from our mail gateway and delivering it to Inbox or
Spam
* Accepting the message from our mail gateway and disappearing it (nothing
in GSuite logs either)
* Rejecting the message with "451 4.5.0 OK  <some id> - gsmtp"

After doing a bunch of testing and finding nothing wrong, I chatted with
GSuite.

The first tech kept insisting I sign in to gmail and get him mail headers
from the messages that were magically disappearing.  I finally convinced
him to escalate me.

The second tech arrived at the conclusion that it was the Message-Id
header.  Messages that were delivered had an externally-resolvable domain
as part of the Message-Id header.  Messages that were 'disappeared' had our
internal domain (i.e. whatever.local) as part of the Message-Id.

I renamed one of the copiers to use our external domain and suddenly it
worked perfectly.

The moment it was fixed, the tech said the problem was solved and closed
the case.

Maybe I'm getting old and forgetful, but I seem to recall the RFCs saying
the Message-Id was nothing more than a tracking identifier and could be
complete garbage.

Can someone at Google shed some light on this?  I don't think the correct
fix for this is to spend days updating copiers and fax gateways at tens of
locations...and I'm suspicious that the Message-Id domain is the root cause.

-A
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