Strange repeating e-mail from MAILER-DAEMON
I send out e-mail alerts to people who have requested them concerning +The New Southern View Ezine+ in Jackson, Mississippi.
I recently sent out an e-mail to eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx and received a return e-mail from MAILER-DAEMON@gxxxx.xxx stating that:
The following message to <eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 User unknown'
Reporting-MTA: dns; xxxx.xxx
Final-Recipient: rfc822;eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)
Remote-MTA: dns; xxx.xxx.xxxx.xx
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 User unknown' (delivery attempts: 0)
I took this name off of my list.
Now when I open the Mail program or swap between accounts within the program, I find four identical e-mails, like the one above. I trash them and when I turn around, they're back — all four of them! All the same!
If this were a horror movie, there'd be weird music and screams in the distance.
I can tell who Eddie works for by the domain name so I contacted their IT and told him what was happening. He said that Eddie had retired and his account was discontinued. So he'd check it from his end.
Here's where it gets really strange! While waiting to hear back from the IT, I turned off my modem and looked at Mail again.
With the modem off, the same thing happens — I trash the four e-mails, look in the trash folder, erase the deleted e-mails, and return to my Inbox. They're back — and this is with the modem off.
This tells me that the problem is internal, right? Meanwhile, the mailbox where these mystery e-mails show up is indicating that it's still receiving e-mails (the little spinny indicator is going around next to the mailbox's name).
I've tried restarting the Mail program and restarting the Mac. I don't want to trash the Prefs as then I'd have to rebuild all five of my Mail accounts. But if I have to, I will.
Can anyone offer a solution?
I recently sent out an e-mail to eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx and received a return e-mail from MAILER-DAEMON@gxxxx.xxx stating that:
The following message to <eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 User unknown'
Reporting-MTA: dns; xxxx.xxx
Final-Recipient: rfc822;eddie.j.miller@xxxx.xxx
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure)
Remote-MTA: dns; xxx.xxx.xxxx.xx
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 User unknown' (delivery attempts: 0)
I took this name off of my list.
Now when I open the Mail program or swap between accounts within the program, I find four identical e-mails, like the one above. I trash them and when I turn around, they're back — all four of them! All the same!
If this were a horror movie, there'd be weird music and screams in the distance.
I can tell who Eddie works for by the domain name so I contacted their IT and told him what was happening. He said that Eddie had retired and his account was discontinued. So he'd check it from his end.
Here's where it gets really strange! While waiting to hear back from the IT, I turned off my modem and looked at Mail again.
With the modem off, the same thing happens — I trash the four e-mails, look in the trash folder, erase the deleted e-mails, and return to my Inbox. They're back — and this is with the modem off.
This tells me that the problem is internal, right? Meanwhile, the mailbox where these mystery e-mails show up is indicating that it's still receiving e-mails (the little spinny indicator is going around next to the mailbox's name).
I've tried restarting the Mail program and restarting the Mac. I don't want to trash the Prefs as then I'd have to rebuild all five of my Mail accounts. But if I have to, I will.
Can anyone offer a solution?
450 MHz G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
