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    Default 550 Administrative prohibition

    My personal email address on one of my servers, has today, started receiving this message which I don't understand.

    Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.mydomain.com
    Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Administrative prohibition

    How do I get off this administrative prohibition please.

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    You should begin by checking for any more specific errors in /var/log/exim_rejectlog

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    If this is not the case, check the forward under /etc/valiases/$domainname for any typo's.
    Make sure the mail inboxes exist under /home/$user/mail/$domainname/$mailuser/inbox
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    There was no joy in exim_rejectlog. However, there was an error in the forwarding info in /valiases/$domain

    Thanks so much for your help!!!

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