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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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Posted on Jan 18, 2007 1:45 PM

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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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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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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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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