Error 451 temporary local problem – please try later
Some time client getting the issue such as “451 temporary local problem – please try later.” while shooting the mail from WHM/cPanel based exim mail server. So follow the below steps to resolve the issue. Open the cli session by root user on the server and have a look into exim logs.
If logs are showing as below.
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:
SMTP>> RCPT TO:
SMTP>> DATA
SMTP<< 250 OK
SMTP<< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
SMTP>> QUIT
Then it can be caused by diversity of different problems which are following.
1. Once open /etc/localdomains and verify that the domain exist or not. If it is not then append the domain.com in mentioned file then save and exit and see problem get solve or not.
2. Open the /etc/valiases/domain.com file and verify that the mail forwarder is setup correctly. It may be possible that customer has forgot to put a second colon on command like :fail: or :blackhole: in their email handling setting of cPanel.
3. If the problem still persists, then use the exim configuration editor in root WHM to reset the exim config to default
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