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Delivery Status Notification - Failure

I have been receiving a failure notice when I email one particular address. I was able to successfully send mail to the address last week. Is it possible that the receiver has blocked my email address or is there another reason that you might know of why my mail won't go to this one address?
Thanks for your time.

IMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jun 2, 2010 9:31 AM

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Jun 2, 2010 10:09 AM in response to baltwo

Thanks for getting back to me... unfortunately the notification doesn't state the reason, it just says "failed" with several lines of non-sense. I am unable to reach the person, she is a magazine editor and has not returned my call. She contacted me for information which I am trying to send to her, but cannot. It's frustrating.
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Jun 2, 2010 12:43 PM in response to paulamarie

Sometimes you get onto what's called a Realtime Blackhole List.
This happens if a spammer picks up your e-mail address, and uses it to spoof your address as spam to someone else. Net result, you get blacklisted, and certain internet providers end up randomly blocking your e-mails. I've seen this happens most frequently when I send to Comcast e-mail addresses.

You can try a couple alternatives:

1. Sending with a webmail program (changes the header of your e-mail address), and if your e-mail provider doesn't have one, you can use http://www.mail2web.com/

2. Create a gmail account and send from there. At least that way, you'll have a very different address.
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