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SMTP 454 TLS not available / temporary auth failure

STARTTLS could not start, or authentication failed temporarily.

454
Class
4xx · Temporary failure
Retried?
Yes, the sending server retries
Defined in
RFC 4954

What to do

How it appears in a bounce

454 TLS not available / temporary auth failure

Paste the full bounce into the decoder — it finds every code and recipient and says what to check.

Idea?