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DMARC fail: SPF and DKIM not aligned DMARC: dmarc=fail (p=REJECT) — SPF and DKIM pass but domains are not aligned with the From header
Email / SMTP · layer 2, Network
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550 5.7.26 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated (SPF/DKIM/DMARC)
Gmail/Outlook rejected the message because SPF and DKIM didn’t pass for the sender’s domain (DMARC failure).
SMTP: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first / 530 5.7.1 Authentication required
The server will not accept mail until you encrypt the connection (STARTTLS) and/or authenticate, and your client did neither.
SMTP: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled / SmtpClientAuthentication is disabled for the Tenant
Microsoft 365 turned off password-based SMTP AUTH for your mailbox or tenant; your client must use OAuth or the setting must be r…
DKIM: dkim=fail (body hash did not verify) / signature verification failed
The receiver recomputed the message hash and it does not match the DKIM signature, so the message was altered after signing.
Mailgun: 403 Forbidden — Sandbox subdomains are for test purposes only. Please add your own domain or add the address to authorized recipients
You are sending from Mailgun's free sandbox domain, which only delivers to addresses you have manually authorized.
SendGrid: 403 Forbidden — The from address does not match a verified Sender Identity. Mail cannot be sent until this error is resolved
SendGrid only sends from addresses or domains you have verified (single sender or domain authentication).
Laravel: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [caching_sha2_password]
The PHP MySQL driver doesn't support the authentication plugin MySQL 8 uses (`caching_sha2_password`).
SMTP: 534-5.7.9 Application-specific password required. Learn more at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
The Google account has 2-Step Verification on, so SMTP clients cannot use the normal password; they need an app password (or OAut…
SPF: spf=permerror — Too many DNS lookups (limit is 10)
Your SPF record needs more than 10 DNS lookups to evaluate, so receivers treat SPF as a permanent error and the check fails.
SPF: spf=permerror — Multiple SPF records found for example.com
The domain publishes more than one TXT record starting with `v=spf1`; receivers must treat that as a permanent error.
SPF: Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning bounce@example.com does not designate 203.0.113.5 as permitted sender)
The server that sent the mail is not listed in the sender domain's SPF record, so the receiver marks it fail or softfail.
DMARC: dmarc=none (no DMARC record found for example.com) — bulk sender requirements not met
The sender's domain publishes no `_dmarc` TXT record, so receivers cannot apply any policy; Gmail and Yahoo now require one for b…
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PHP mail() returns false / emails not delivered
PHP’s mail() function failed or emails never arrive (spam or rejected).
SES MessageRejected: Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check in region
SES refused to send because the From address/domain isn’t verified — or the account is still in the SES sandbox, where recipients…
Contact Form 7: There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.
The form submitted, but wp_mail() failed to send — the server can’t send mail or the mail settings are wrong.
ReplyError: NOAUTH Authentication required.
The Redis server requires a password (or ACL user) but the client didn’t authenticate.
Received disconnect: Too many authentication failures
Your SSH agent offered too many keys before the right one, and the server cut the connection (MaxAuthTries, default 6).
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd couldn’t update the password — the root filesystem is read-only, /etc/shadow has wrong permissions/attributes, or a PAM ru…
WordPress REST API: {"code":"rest_forbidden","message":"Sorry, you are not allowed to do that."} (401/403)
The REST request isn’t authenticated or the user lacks the capability required by the route’s permission_callback.
Laravel: Symfony\Component\Routing\Exception\RouteNotFoundException: Route [login] not defined
Code called route('name') for a route name that doesn’t exist — very often route('login') from the auth middleware in API-only ap…
SMTP: 450 4.7.1 <user@example.com>: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted, see http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/example.com.html
The recipient server deliberately rejected the first delivery attempt from an unknown sender (greylisting) and expects a legitima…
SMTP: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials
The server received your login but rejected it — wrong username or password, an unusable password type, or a blocked sign-in.
DKIM: dkim=permerror (no key for signature) / key not found in DNS selector._domainkey
The message is signed with a selector, but the receiver found no DKIM public key in DNS at that selector, so verification cannot…
IMAP: NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure)
The IMAP server rejected the login — wrong password, IMAP disabled, an app password required, or basic auth blocked.
SMTP: 421 4.7.0 Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. Mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily rate limited
The receiving server (often Gmail or Outlook) is temporarily throttling your mail because the volume or reputation of your sendin…
SMTP: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error / 451 Requested action aborted: local error in processing
The server hit an internal problem (disk, database, content filter, DNS) while handling your message and asked you to retry later.
SMTP: 452 4.2.2 The email account that you tried to reach is over quota
The recipient's mailbox has exceeded its storage quota, so the server will not accept new mail for now.
Amazon SES: Throttling — Maximum sending rate exceeded (454 Throttling failure)
You are sending faster than your Amazon SES account's per-second limit, so SES throttles the requests.
Python: smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted')
`smtp.login()` was rejected by the server — wrong credentials, wrong password type, or authentication not allowed for that accoun…
Nodemailer: Error: Invalid login: 535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted (code: 'EAUTH', responseCode: 535)
The SMTP server rejected the credentials passed to Nodemailer.
Postfix: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory
Postfix could not authenticate a user (inbound) or could not log in to a relay (outbound) because the SASL service or credentials…
SMTP: 550 5.4.5 Daily user sending quota exceeded (Gmail)
The Gmail or Google Workspace account reached its 24-hour sending limit, so it stops accepting outgoing mail until the limit rese…
SMTP: 550-5.7.25 The IP address sending this message does not have a PTR record setup, or the corresponding forward DNS entry does not point to the sending IP
Gmail (and others) require your sending IP to have a reverse DNS (PTR) record that resolves back to the same IP; yours has none o…
cURL error 6: Could not resolve host: api.example.com
PHP cURL couldn’t resolve the hostname via DNS.
sudo: unable to resolve host <hostname>: Name or service not known
The machine’s hostname isn’t in /etc/hosts (or DNS), so sudo prints this warning — usually after changing the hostname.
ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
The Linux host can’t resolve domain names — no working DNS server is configured or reachable.
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