Why does email bounce?

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Dear Leo,
Even though i'm able to receive my mail, i am not able to compose them.it says tat the id doesnt exists , though it is present..
Wat shall i do,,
[Email Address Removed]

I have read your article. Thank you very much for the helpful information. I have a particular question: We are residing in Spain and are using a Spanish keyboard. All has been fine up until recently when I would attempt to register at particular websites and when I entered my e-mail address I would receive a message indicating "invalid e-mail address", and displaying what I had typed as "**************". This would even occur at sites I was already registered at. I do use RoboForm to login to sites. I would then change the keyboard to English (United States) and attempt it again (and at different times and days) but the same. Even when I send e-mail out I open what I have sent and notice it indicates:
"Roberta Huey wrote:" not displaying my e-mail address at all. Now this does not occur every time but frequently enough. I would truly appreciate any additional information you can offer. Thank you very much.

RHuey (PS - it even occurred while trying to send you this comment: "Comment Submission Error. Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: Name and email address are required." etc., when I had already input my email address.... (H-e-l-p!)

mine isn't a question so much as an answer, I discovered that hotmail filters out any email with the letters XXX in the email after much frustration, it was a code I was using in my address book but after removing all references to those letters it finally went through...

I BOUNCED (Yahoo Mail) someone who is harrassing me- I did not not want to e-mail with anymore. I bounced his most recent e-mail. Somehow, my whole "sent" mailbox folder sent to him for 48 hours until I found out that a new "Rule" had been set to send him- ALL my sent mails. How could this happen? He is now sending threatening messages to family and friends as he now has many of their addresses. Help!

I keep having users come up with this error at random times:

MailEnable: Message could not be delivered to some recipients.
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

Recipient: [SMTP:[email address removed]
Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: -

Message headers follow:

Received: from perfectmortgage.com ([192.168.76.7]) by builderware.net with MailEnable ESMTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:07:12 -0500
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C8548D.2B2BFDD7"
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0
Subject: documents
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:04:27 -0500
Message-ID:
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: documents
Thread-Index: AchUjSslN2tu91qcQaOT4owbl/we5w==
From: "Joyce"
To: [email address removed]
Cc: [email address removed]
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000

Any idea what could be causing this?

Whenever I am on the road and I use Outlook for emails I cannot send emails. I can recieve emails but I cannot send. The error is always the 550 relaying not allowed to (gmail, yahoo, etc... all of the) So I realize, from your newsletter article that I received, that the problem is due to my location not being able to be authienticated. What is the settings I need to change to fix this?????

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That depends entirely on your ISP/mail provider. You'll need
to contact them.

Leo

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hi, i received this message after sending an email. the recipiant tells me that yahoo sends my message to her spam folder no matter what she does to list me as a safe sender.
is there anything i can do from my end to open communication?
thank you
tony

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

cynthiarunge@yahoo.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host a.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.118.103]: 421 4.7.0 [TS02] Messages from 74.50.5.128 temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.56.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts02.html:
retry timeout exceeded

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It's not your email address that's bouncing, this part:

Messages from 74.50.5.128 temporarily deferred

indicates to me that it's your mail serivice that's blocked.
In otherwords others using the same mail service have likely
been sending spam, and as a result that mail service has
been blocked.

FWIW 74.50.5.128 appears to be lunarpages web hosting. You
might try talking to them.

Leo

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