Google/Microsoft: read error: FAILED_PRECONDITION: read error (104): Connection reset by peer

Does anyone else have trouble getting email delivered to their self-hosted discourse instance but only from large email providers such as Google and Microsoft? I am able to send emails to my instance using a local email server, iCloud, and ProtonMail consistently but with Gmail (including its Workspace email) and Office 365 based emails I get the following error:

## Message not delivered
There was a problem delivering your message to **[xxx@example.com](mailto:xxx@example.com)** . See the technical details below.
The response was:

read error: FAILED_PRECONDITION: read error (104): Connection reset by peer

Reporting-MTA: dns; [googlemail.com](http://googlemail.com/)
Arrival-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:12:55 -0700 (PDT)
X-Original-Message-ID: <[CAAY3Td6W+9uYHRVJ6A8=9pG4LhaJrYRAN16CWe=3_2gG9TH7Uw@mail.gmail.com](mailto:CAAY3Td6W+9uYHRVJ6A8=9pG4LhaJrYRAN16CWe=3_2gG9TH7Uw@mail.gmail.com)>

Final-Recipient: rfc822; [xxx@example.com](mailto:xxx@example.com)
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.2
Remote-MTA: dns; [reply-mx.example.com](http://reply-mx.example.com/). (xxx.yyy.zzz.163, the server for
the domain [example.com](http://example.com/).)
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; read error: FAILED_PRECONDITION: read error (104): Connection reset by peer
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 17:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
**From:** Kartik <[yyy@gmail.com](mailto:yyy@gmail.com)>
**Subject:** **Test from Gmail**
**Date:** Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 3:12:39 PM CDT
**To:** [xxx@example.com](mailto:xxx@example.com)


[details="OR 'Socket error ConnectionReset' with O365:"]
From: Microsoft Outlook <MicrosoftExchange329e71ec88ae4615bbc36ab6ce41109e@example.onmicrosoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 10:32 AM
To: xxx@example.com <xxx@example.com>
Subject: Undeliverable: email subject here
>
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
xxx@example.com (xxx@example.com)
Your message wasn't delivered. Despite repeated attempts to deliver your message, a connection to the remote server couldn't be made.
Contact the recipient by some other means (by phone, for example) and ask them to tell their email admin that it appears that your email system is unable to connecto their email system. Give them the error details shown below. It's likely that the recipient's email admin is the only one who can fix this problem.
For more information and tips to fix this issue see this article: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=389361.
>
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
Receiving server: example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
Total retry attempts: 2
xxx@example.com
10/13/2021 4:32:36 PM - Server at example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com returned '550 5.4.317 Message expired, cannot connect to remote server(451 4.4.0 Socket error ConnectionReset)'
10/13/2021 4:22:34 PM - Server at example.com (xxx.yyy.zzz.163) returned '450 4.4.317 Cannot connect to remote server [Message=451 4.4.0 Socket error ConnectionReset] [LastAttemptedServerName=example.com] [LastAttemptedIP=xxx.yyy.zzz.163:25] [example.eop-nam12.prod.protection.outlook.com](451 4.4.0 Socket error ConnectionReset)'
>
Original message headers:
>
Received: from example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com (xxxx:yyyy:a03:b4::21)
by example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com (xxxx:yyyy:a03:f8::11) with
Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,
cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.4608.15; Wed, 13 Oct
2021 03:11:53 +0000
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Received: from example2.namprd11.prod.outlook.com (xxxx:yyyy:a03:2ad::14)
by example.namprd11.prod.outlook.com (xxxx:yyyy:a03:b4::21) with
Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,
cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id 15.20.4587.18; Tue, 12 Oct
2021 16:27:30 +0000
Received: from example2.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
([xxxx::yyyy:82ac:bef9:609c]) by example2.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
([xxxx::yyyy:82ac:bef9:609c%6]) with mapi id 15.20.4587.026; Tue, 12 Oct 2021
16:27:30 +0000
From: First Last <fname@example.com>
To: "reciepient@example.com" <reciepient@example.com>
CC: "xxx@example.com" <xxx@example.com>
Subject: email subject here
Thread-Topic: email subject here
Thread-Index: AQHXv4U3rrvQuLjuyE6Hw8DbZvWdCw==
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:27:30 +0000
Message-ID: <example2943732845882FABC52E0D8B69@example2.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
Accept-Language: en-US
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I also partially suspected the recent update to postfix that I promptly applied but I could not verify that to be the root cause of the issue. Aggressive spam blocking with the new update could be a problem, for example, but how do I confirm that’s the case?

This has been happening at least since late September/early October. Any ideas or suggestions from the community to help diagnose what might be wrong would be really helpful.

Anyone else facing this issue? Can I only reach our email admin and ask for help with this error?