Mail delivery subsystem

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Mail delivery subsystem

My emails keep bouncing back randomly from mailer-daemon@mac.com. I dont know what the problem is and I dont know how to fix it.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Jan 17, 2007 9:04 AM

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Answer 1

thomas_r.

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Jan 17, 2007 12:47 PM in response to Jen_in_AK

Sounds like you're trying to send mail to a non-existant address at Mac.com. You should see the same message if you try to send an e-mail to somerandomgarbage@mac.com. (And if you don't, somebody picked a really odd user name!)

Somewhere in the bounce message, it should tell you what the address was that failed. Then you need to contact the person whose address you thought it was (obviously not via e-mail) and find out what his or her actual address is.

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Answer 2

alexri

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Jan 17, 2007 1:01 PM in response to Jen_in_AK

Log in with your dotmac-account at mac.com and find out if your mailbox space is full.

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Answer 3

Jan 17, 2007 1:15 PM in response to Jen_in_AK

Most of the time, mailer daemon indicates a reason for which the mail has been bounced. Could you give more informations ?

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Jen_in_AK Author

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Jan 18, 2007 8:14 AM in response to Yann Bizeul

This is the error message I have been getting and then 4 days later I get another one that says it bounced back. I am not trying to send anything to a .mac account I am trying to send it from my .mac account. Any Ideas?

********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
********************************************

The original message was received at Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)
from smtpin04-en2 [10.13.10.149]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from asmtp.asu.edu.
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from asmtp5.asu.edu.
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from asmtp4.asu.edu.
<pierre.herckes@asu.edu>... Deferred: Operation timed out with asmtp4.asu.edu.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 4 days old
Reporting-MTA: dns; smtpout.mac.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; XXXXXXX@asu.edu
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.2
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:14:01 -0800 (PST)
Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)

From: Jennifer Morgan <jen inak@mac.com>
Date: January 16, 2007 12:13:06 PM MST
To: XXXXXXXX <XXXXXXXXX@asu.edu>
Subject: 327

I will be in class tomorrow. Here is the with the changes and my office hours
Thanks
Jennifer M.

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Jen_in_AK Author

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Jan 18, 2007 8:15 AM in response to Jen_in_AK

OH BTW I XXXX the eamil address of the person I am trying to send the email too and it is the right email it has worked before. Also It has happened with other emails all @asu.com

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Answer 6

Jan 18, 2007 1:45 PM in response to Jen_in_AK

The errors indicate the mail transport on the asu side is having problems, not the .mac side. Everyone sending mail to those addresses will probably see those errors. They may be intermittent, so it may succeed some of the time. There isn't anything you can do on your side other than notify the people at ASU that they are having problems.

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