2746771 - Server not responding OK to MAIL FROM; xxx x.x.x Client was not authenticated

• You are using Process Integration (PI) or Process Orchestration (PO) mail adapter at the receiver side to send emails to the target mail server.
• During the processing, mail adapter is trying connecting to target SMTP server but it fails with the error:
  Message processing failed. Cause: com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.srt.BubbleException: Failed to call the endpoint [null "null"]; nested exception caused by: java.io.IOException: server not responding OK to MAIL FROM; xxx x.x.x Client was not authenticated

• SAP NetWeaver
• SAP Process Integration

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