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Comment from Sagar on 2009-11-13

2009-11-13T12:21:49Z

Hi,

I am sending emails from my own web server, but some emails are getting bounced. So do you know any solution which will give me a count of bounced emails??

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Comment from Jim H on 2009-10-13

2009-10-14T01:04:13Z

I lost a job opportunity when I could not respond to the job offer within the set time because my ISP, Comcast, was blacklisted for SPAM by Blackhole. I tried every one of my Comcast addresses, my Hotmail and G-mail addresses and all got bounced. When I contacted the blocking agency they told me sorry, there was nothing they could do for me. I called Comcast and they said, "We're working on it." Meanwhile, I didn't get the job. Another time a friend from upstate New York, almost in Canada, sent me a joke with the word Viagra in it. It was a good joke so I replied to tell him so and had some other chit-chat to tell him. I was both bounced and blocked and later found I had been permanently blocked and labeled as a spammer because of the word Viagra in the email and because my reply included his original email. He used an animated emoticon in all his emails and the emoticon had a link at the bottom of the email page for recipients to click on to get free emoticons, too. I had to call his ISP via phone and plead my case to be unblocked. It was a huge hassle and if he wasn't such a good friend I would have given up. Again, any email from my computer from and email service was blocked. I had another unpleasant experience with another friend whose ISP had installed software called Barracuda to filter SPAM and it was still in learn mode when I got repeated bounces when I tried to email him. It bounced me for everything from keywords to having multiple "To" addresses with maddening frequency. I complained to the ISP probably a dozen and a half times before it stopped. I even emailed the makers of Barracuda and complained. of course, I never heard back from them. Hopefully the company folded.

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Comment from deb leahy on 2009-09-20

2009-09-20T17:27:42Z

Mine bounces but says it is a permanent error
that my e/m is blocked by Verizon anti- spam
system. I am convinced this person has blocked me?

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Comment from Linda on 2009-09-10

2009-09-10T23:20:12Z

How do I resolve this problem?

Remote host said: 550 SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. Reasons for rejection may be related to content with spam-like characteristics or IP/domain reputation problems. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, please visit http://postmaster.live.com for email delivery information and support

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Comment from kim on 2009-08-25

2009-08-25T08:45:37Z

Hi, I am getting the error message - This address no longer accepts mail. Can you help please?

Thanks in advance

No, I cannot. The error message pretty much says it all. I'm not sure what you'd expect could be done.

25-Aug-2009

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Comment from Rajeshkanna on 2009-08-17

2009-08-18T05:00:25Z

Hi,
I have an mail application develeped by ASP.NET. IT works fine for different domains, but it displays error as
'Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or not local' for same domain.
My files hosted in Windows server and mail server is Linux..

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Comment from Joanne on 2009-08-06

2009-08-06T10:09:54Z

The following message to was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table'
Does this message mean that my email is being blocked by this person. Is there a way to see if someone is blocking your emails.
PS I removed the persons email from the message.

Has nothing to do with a person blocking you - there's no way to know if a person is blocking you. This error typically results from either a misconfigured mail server (which may resolve itself, or not), or typing in the email address wrong.

06-Aug-2009

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Comment from James Elgan on 2009-04-20

2009-04-20T13:09:37Z

Bellsouth E address went to AT&T and they went to YAHOO and now I can't get a group of contacts E's to go out. Single E's go but they too smoetimes don't make it.This is what I receive back:::

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

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Comment from Matty Smith on 2009-03-17

2009-03-17T08:27:16Z

I got these notifications when inviting a number of users to join a Yahoo! Group. In some cases the email addresses in the message were nothing like the one I had sent it to. What is going on here?

"Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 23si10110592gxk.82 [RCPT_TO]"

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Comment from Gems on 2009-02-26

2009-02-26T10:29:26Z

Hi Leo,

Emails I send to hotmail.com are bouncing back. Both from comcast.com, aol(aim) and gmail google's email website.

Can you help with the settings on this? Also same is happening with my hotmail.com "live:msn" emails... (Bad Email Address is the message attached) :(

I associated my gmail address with my MSN live account to stop some of the difficulties that I had with getting email to my younger brother who also has a "Live:msn" hotmail account. His works.
Can you help with the settings, that are making these emails bounce back?
thanks...

I'd need to see the exact error message in bounce.

- Leo
26-Feb-2009

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Comment from Warren on 2009-02-04

2009-02-04T21:56:03Z

What is a "non-specific bounce" mean?

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Comment from chaitanya dandavate on 2008-10-24

2008-10-24T17:08:03Z

My problem with rediffmail id

I DO NOT RECIEVE ANY MAILS ON MY REDIFFMAIL ID . WHEN I TRIED TO SEND MAIL FROM ALTERNATE YAHOO ID I RECVD bounce@rediffmail.com instead i got a reply:

Hi-This is qmail send program ------------

I have already submitted my problem with rediffmail.com
I dont want to loose my mail id on rediffmail.com since it is widely circulated

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Comment from dols on 2008-09-05

2008-09-05T18:54:21Z

hi,

sometimes, it is the stupidiest thing that causes the problem, and these are mostly not mentioned...

I had mail.zonnet.nl as outgoing server, and pop.zonnet.nl as incoming.
After much ado, I remembered that my provider was athome, so I needed to have : mail.home.nl.

And THAT solved my "553 sorry, relaying denied from your location problem!

thanks anyway!

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Comment from SanjayT on 2008-07-23

2008-07-23T07:15:07Z

HI sir,
Can u explain the below error.
Thanks in advance

553 sorry, Authentication failed or timed out. Please do get messages first to authenticate yourself.(#4.4.3)

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T20:39:03Z

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Unlikely. If the problem is with the host, then it's more
likely that the email address part after the "@" is wrong,
or your mail provider is misconfigured - check with them.

Leo

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Comment from Vrajesh on 2008-07-03

2008-07-03T08:46:02Z

I am getting my mail bounced message from my rediffmail id. This is happening with message saying ISP does not like receipient and Remost host says uses not known. Is this possible if sender's id is blocked by recipient

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Comment from Leo on 2008-06-15

2008-06-15T17:00:21Z

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YOU may think it's a valid email address, but the mail
server that is attempting to deliver it does not. There's
nothing you can do about that. If you can contact the
recipient some other way you should verify that you
absolutely have the right email address, and if you do, then
he should complain to his ISP.

Leo

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Comment from ashish manjrekar on 2008-06-13

2008-06-13T08:37:46Z

I have got following message when I am trying to send mail to [Email address removed]. . I am sure that the email Id is in exist and internal mail from bankofindia.com (MMS) are gettting but external mails are not receiving.

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

[Email address removed].
203.199.104.69 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 User unknown
Giving up on 203.199.104.69.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: [Email address removed].
Received: (qmail 81659 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jun 2008 07:34:18 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID;

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Comment from E. Born on 2008-05-26

2008-05-26T15:34:35Z

people send me e-mails, I receive them, but the sender gets a "550 not delivered, mailbox unknown"-type message. I sent a message saying "Test" to myself and same thing - got original message and ALSO the message saying it was bounced back. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Comment from jeff on 2008-05-13

2008-05-14T06:48:59Z

Hi Leo, I badly need your help, i have a failed emai delivery, and this is what it say:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

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:

[email edited]
SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
host mailgate.cybercity.dk [IP edited]: 550 5.7.1 message content rejected

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

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Comment from yuriy on 2008-05-06

2008-05-06T15:15:47Z

Hi Leo. I'm trying to set my qmail server so it gives me 550 error page when there is no such a user. I'm using virtual manager to manage virtual domains. I have only one domain and every time I'm trying to send message to non existing user qmail-verify accepting anything. I reckon that the problem in .qmail-default which pipes to /usr/local/bin/vdeliver. If I remove .qmail-default from /home/email/[virtual_domain]/ folder email stops working.
Do you know what I need to change in /home/email/[virtual_domain]/.qmail-default in order 550 error works properly?

Thanks in advance,
yuriy

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Comment from Bobbi on 2008-04-18

2008-04-18T15:51:43Z

I have a user getting a bounceback on an email address he uses quite frequently. Suddenly he can't email this guy. Others in my organization can email him, but this guy cannot. He gets a bounce back that the user is unknown. But the user is known since it works for other. Tried using the webmail account for this user and still get the bounce back.

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Comment from luz on 2008-04-08

2008-04-08T08:38:00Z

why my email bounce?i thought everything was ok but suddenly i received it again but not all my emails bounced.pls.help!!the noticed enclosed was message expired for domain at blah...blah..blah..but the one i send email told me that everything is still very good on his part..why all this happen?

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Comment from erik on 2008-03-24

2008-03-25T02:22:59Z

mr leo, need help!

this is the sample sender email:[email address removed]

error line saying...

[email address removed]>> unable to connect to 207.168.10.12" sample IP Add.

[email address removed] is the recipient

thanks!

erik

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-03-19

2008-03-19T22:22:03Z

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That's what I would assume

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Comment from Alex Watson on 2008-03-19

2008-03-19T12:25:20Z

I have had a bounceback with an error not listed on your page:

:
207.99.47.95 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table
Giving up on 207.99.47.95.

does this mean that the email address i am trying to send to doesn't exist?

thanks

Alex

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Comment from erik on 2008-03-18

2008-03-19T03:01:24Z

this is the sample sender email:[email address removed]

error line saying...

[email address removed]>> unable to connect to 207.168.10.12" sample IP Add.

[email address removed] is the recipient

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-03-09

2008-03-10T04:34:33Z

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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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Comment from Tony Pelusi Jr on 2008-03-09

2008-03-09T16:44:03Z

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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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2008-03-07

2008-03-07T18:22:55Z

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

Leo

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Comment from iBill on 2008-03-06

2008-03-06T18:02:59Z

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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Comment from Jesse Robinson on 2008-01-11

2008-01-11T21:19:19Z

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?

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Comment from kathy LaForce on 2008-01-03

2008-01-04T05:36:34Z

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!

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Comment from John Paul on 2007-11-19

2007-11-19T13:33:25Z

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...

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Comment from RHuey on 2007-09-19

2007-09-19T15:41:00Z

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!)

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Comment from Premnath on 2007-08-26

2007-08-27T06:49:12Z

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]

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Comment from Todor Krumov on 2007-08-21

2007-08-21T11:35:25Z

What is RCPT related to?

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-03-27

2007-03-27T17:07:35Z

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It *sounds* like stale DNS entry somewhere.

Did you set up an MX (mail exchange) record for her domain to point to your
mail server where the forwarding happens? If not you might consider adding one.
If there's no MX record mailer mailers are supposed to use the IP of the
destination domain as the target server, but I've always been more comfortable
adding an explicit MX to say "the mailer for this domain is here".

Six months is a long time for a DNS entry to be stale. You might also consider
"refreshing" DNS by making a change that would force your DNS records to get
re-propagated.

Good luck!

Leo
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Comment from Tacha on 2007-03-27

2007-03-27T16:59:21Z

Hi Leo,

I have a client who used to have an email address from her web site that forwarded to her ISP. She has since switched her hosting to my company AND her ISP to a new provider.

I have setup her web hosting account as I would any other new account and changed her DNS settings to the DNS of the new host. I also setup forwarding for her email that comes into the Web hosting account to her new ISP (which is the same as the old Web hosting site - she wanted to keep info@ as the email username).

Most of the time things work fine, but ocassionally, she sends me an "unknown user" error message she has received from her friends or clients because the new Web hosting email address forwards the incoming email to the old ISP email address (which bounces correctly) instead of forwarding it to the new ISP email address.

I am frustrated because I don't understand how the new account I set up could ever "know" how to forward to the old ISP address. Is there a registry or something that this forwarding information is on? This has been going on for about 6 months now.

Thanks in advance for any light you can shine on this problem.

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Comment from Matt on 2007-03-11

2007-03-11T20:41:03Z

Hi, this was a very helpful artical...however I have a dillemma. I use a domain name which I purchased. This domain name forwards all my emails to whichever email address I specify. This way, I do not have to alert everyone in the world when I switch ISP's and can no longer retrieve mail. I simply use email@mydomain.com and viola! i have an email address forever.

Well, this has worked great up until about 5 months ago. I am now getting all sorts of these "unable to relay" errors. Why can't I just get them to leave me alone! I am not a spammer! Why can't I just use the internet the way it was designed to be used, and get the isp's to just BUTT OUT!!!

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Comment from Murali on 2007-02-24

2007-02-25T04:53:09Z

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
209.191.89.172 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 relaying denied for
Giving up on 209.191.89.172.

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Comment from Kym on 2007-01-18

2007-01-18T20:42:20Z

Great article. Helped me a lot.

For one domain on our server we are getting a lot of

"unrouteable mail domain"

when the site owner sends out a bulk email so she thinks it is our problem. But I am not too sure.

Any ideas?

thanks

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Comment from kamlesh on 2006-12-08

2006-12-09T04:43:58Z

dear leo,

I have a complete different issue.

I am trying to send a mail using mapi application &outlook express.

When I am attempting to receive mail adresses from database or ini file It's gives me the #5.1.1 error ie. I am afraiding etc. as mentioned in ur article.

I am able to send mails properly through hardcore programming bUT i dont want to do that.

Plz, help me.

REgards,

kamlesh

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Comment from Ramesh Velayudhan on 2006-11-28

2006-11-28T10:01:42Z

Hi,
I'm also getting the following error in the bounced mail text. Can anyone please tell me what is happening, and how this can be fixed ? Thanks in advance.

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at rediffmail.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
This message is looping: it already has my Delivered-To line. (#5.4.6)

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Comment from Kiran Patel on 2006-11-09

2006-11-09T12:34:48Z

some time i get this error message after sending a message like...

553 sorry, Authentication failed or timed out. Please do get messages first to authenticate yourself.(#4.4.3)

please Help....

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Comment from SusanG on 2006-11-03

2006-11-03T19:09:53Z

Here's a message I got, after I reconfigured my reverse DNS or PTR record. Some senders, some of the time got this message when they tried to email us. Not all external email was bounced, which suggests something spam-blockish about this error.
What I don't understand is that the bouncing happened AFTER we made the change to our PTR record. Do you think it's the aftereffects of reconfiguring a PTR record, and if so, can you explain why this would happen after the change was pushed out (but not before it was fully propagated)? Thanks so much, Susan

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at hostXXX.ipowerweb.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

:
vdeliver: Invalid or unknown virtual user 'xxxx'

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Comment from K. N. SANKARA NARAYANAN on 2006-10-13

2006-10-14T06:56:05Z

Dear Leo,

If I am correct, you are the only person who has elaborately explained in simple English giving out different reasons for bouncing of e-mail.

Well Done. A very good article. I enjoyed reading it.

Thanks for making a layman like me to understand the technical things so simply.

God Bless you.

Regards.

Sankara Narayanan

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-10-13

2006-10-13T16:34:06Z

"Authentication failed" - you have not configured outlook with the proper account and password information to be able to send mail.

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Comment from Sunil Nair on 2006-10-12

2006-10-13T06:31:32Z

This is the error message displayed while sending a mail From: System Administrator
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:09 PM
To: '[Email Address Removed]'
Subject: Undeliverable: cognos 1Q 07

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: cognos 1Q 07

Sent: 10/12/2006 7:09 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'[Email Address Removed]' on 10/12/2006 7:09 PM

553 sorry, Authentication failed or timed out. Please do get messages first to authenticate yourself.(#4.4.3)

but the same is sent if I close and reopen ms outlook and try to resend it

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Comment from Allwyn on 2006-08-10

2006-08-10T11:32:06Z

553 sorry, Authentication failed or timed out. Please do get message first to authenticate yourself (#4.4.3).
some time i get this error message after sending a message to perticular sender to whome i am sending mails last six months.

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Comment from V RAMESH on 2006-06-07

2006-06-07T12:57:52Z

Hi!

when I try to send mail through lotus notes I get the follwoing error
rediffmail.com - Mail server mail2.rediffmail.com rejected your mail;
error: INVALID_MAILBOX_SYNTAX.
Message received from mail server:
553 sorry, invalid envelope sender in header (#5.7.1)

please advise

regards
ramesh

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Comment from Heidi on 2006-04-21

2006-04-21T10:43:36Z

If someone is in the military and working undercover, could the government have set up their computer so it cannot receive personal mail? I corresponded for years with someone who was a dear friend and now messages come back saying:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

...I am afraid for his safety. Could he have died? What happens when someone dies regarding e-mails? Does someone have to go in and delete their address? I know in the past his computer and phone had to go through certain security checks by his employer. I'm confused and worried.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-04-13

2006-04-13T14:32:41Z

You'll need to resend.

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Comment from Radha on 2006-04-13

2006-04-13T08:41:12Z

After sending e-mail I got failure notice which stated that mail folder of the recipient is full. If the recipient corrects this problem will my mail delievered or should I resend it?

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Comment from Fred on 2006-02-22

2006-02-22T15:58:19Z

Re: the problem with "invalid envelope sender in header" it sometimes helps if you invoke Secure Authentication in your mail clients Server Settings (Thunderbird: Click on mailbox, then Accounts\View Settings For This Account Select the mailbox you're sending from (if more than one) then Server Settings\Use Secure Authentication (I've no idea how to do that in Ou!*?*k. You'll have to improvise). You may need to uncheck this once the errant e-mail has been sent (if this is what the problem is). It works in some cases. Pity the receiving mail server doesn't let you know.

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Comment from phani on 2006-02-17

2006-02-17T11:25:20Z

i got the error 550 is not a valid mailbox
6 by Persits.MailSender.4

how to fix it in my asp application

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Comment from Pratik on 2006-01-18

2006-01-18T15:08:11Z

Hi Leo,
me too have some problem while sendng mail through persistmail.
the bounced mail message is as follows
"-----------------------------------------
MailEnable: Message could not be delivered to some recipients.
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

Recipient:
Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 553 sorry, invalid envelope sender in header (#5.7.1)

Reason Code: SMTP Outbound - General Error
Error Number: 0

Message headers follow:

Received: from neutron.dns-fusion.com ([65.98.69.125]) by dns-fusion.com with MailEnable ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:20:54 -0500
-----------------------------------------"

Please guide me how to sort out this problem.

Thanks
PRATIK

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Comment from Leo on 2006-01-10

2006-01-10T18:45:03Z

If you got it in response to something you sent, it looks like a mailer is having a problem, and you should resend. If you just got it out of the blue, then it's probably a malfunctioning spambot, and I'd delete it and ignore further.

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Comment from igor on 2006-01-10

2006-01-10T12:41:17Z

Hi,
can you tell me more about mu error:

MailEnable: Message Delivery Failure.

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

Recipient: [SMTP:stefcotasevski@mt.net.mk]
Reason: 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself.
Reason Code: SMTP Outbound - General Error
Error Number: 0

Message contents follow:

Received: from 192.168.0.1 ([62.162.217.183]) by home with MailEnable ESMTP; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:05:00 +0100
Received: from 192.168.0.13 for stefcotasevski@mt.net.mk; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:04:25 +0100
Message-ID:
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:06:47 +0100
From: Emilijan Nojkovski
Reply-To: emce@edusoft.com.mk
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Stefco Tasevski
Subject: nova faktura za 2006 001/06
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="------------06A7F08C69F297FA147E6F38"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------06A7F08C69F297FA147E6F38
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

treba da mu platime na digit 7027.00 denari so ddv

--------------06A7F08C69F297FA147E6F38
Content-Type: application/msexcel;
name="izvodi za emil do 12(1).05.xls 1.xls"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="izvodi za emil do 12(1).05.xls 1.xls"

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-15

2005-12-16T06:06:43Z

Mark: it depends on the failure. I believe the mail specification says something like 4 days.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-15

2005-12-16T05:05:20Z

Mahesh: that looks like a server configuration problem. You'll need to contact the owner of the server you're using to send mail through.

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Comment from Mark on 2005-12-15

2005-12-15T08:45:58Z

My DNS Server apparently decided to point my email to its´own address for a period of about 23 hours. It was only corrected after I learned where the problem lied, as I thought the server was down.

Do yoiu have any ideas as to what percentage of email servers re-attempt delivery of email for a period of 24 hours or more when the server does not respond?

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Comment from mahesh on 2005-12-06

2005-12-07T07:08:36Z

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

Recipient:
Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)

Reason Code: SMTP Outbound - General Error
Error Number: 0

Message headers follow:

Received: from SERVER ([59.144.126.117]) by silvercommunication.net with MailEnable ESMTP; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:00:20 +0530
Message-ID:
F
To:
Subject: test mail
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:01:09 +0530
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C5FB1D.8784FC30"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

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Comment from Leo on 2005-11-09

2005-11-10T03:39:41Z

Timed out implies that the server name (the part after the '@') is wrong or not responding. It's possible that the mail server is rejecting the email because it's too big, but that's usually what it says in the error message when that happens.

You might try uploading the photos to a picture sharing service (flickr comes to mind), and then emailing a link to your page on that service.

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Comment from Diana on 2005-11-07

2005-11-08T00:07:11Z

I have been trying to send wedding pictures to my husbands aunt and twice now that I have sent it, it has been returned to me. The message I get is that it timed out. What does that mean? How can this problem be fixed? My husband and I want our family to see some of our beautiful wedding pictures and are becoming frustrated. Any assistance you can give us regarding this matter would be appreciated.

Sincerely

Diana & Mike

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Comment from Leo on 2005-08-25

2005-08-25T16:46:01Z

No, it should not.

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Comment from Jeff McCulloch on 2005-08-25

2005-08-25T14:23:44Z

If I send e-mail to a group in Outlook (POP3 through Yahoo) and one recipient's e-mail account has reached quota, does that prevent the rest from receiving that mail?

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