Emails - message failure reports

bailey

Is there a decent site or resource which gives you the basics of email and in particular working out what the hell the "failed message reports" mean

Thanks

damnyanks

Failed message means it didnt send i thought

Sposs

It could be a connection or server issue call your ISP or hosting company if it keeps happening.

the Guru

Most of the Time it could be a mispelled Email address or the Reciepients mail box is full so it will be bounced back

What is the Error you are getting

bailey

it can be a different message depending on what is wrong for example this one:

"unable to contact destination SMTP daemon.
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long"

it seems to me like the recipient's mail server is down

another
"Remote host said: 550 User unknown"

I would guess is a wrong email address

It is other obscure ones that I cannot figure out

davil

Which email client are you using?

And have you got Norton antivirus filtering your email? [is it even installed?] Most importantly though, Is this just with one email address or every one you try?

dahamsta

"unable to contact destination SMTP daemon.
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long"

it seems to me like the recipient's mail server is down

Yip. Ot it could be misconfigured DNS or somesuch.

"Remote host said: 550 User unknown"

I would guess is a wrong email address

Uh-huh.

It is other obscure ones that I cannot figure out

Should we do a vulcan mind meld to find out?

How about "relaying denied"? "Mail loops back to me"?

adam

LoLth

going to move this to the windows forum. You might get some new replies there.