OT: e-mail issues

Can someone please tell me what it means when you get a message like this from your e-mail postmaster concerning an e-mail you sent and you have been notified that it is undeliverable? They say they have tried to deliver it so many timesand will try for two additional days.

"Client host rejected: Resource temporarily unavailable - rate limiting"

This makes being an Elf for Santa very frustrating when I e-mail someone and two days later it comes back with this message and I get dinged on the newsgroup for not e-mailing.

Sandy

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Sandy
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anji

It means your email service is doing its job and there in a problem on the other end. The problems could include 1) the email address you are sending it to is not valid, 2) the recipients mailbox is full, 3) the client host thinks it is spam and won't accept delivery.

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Scout Lady

Hi Sandy, I have Googled your reported message and can't find anything exactly the same, so I broke the message up. The "Resource temporarily unavailable - rate limiting" seems to come up in relation to webtv.net email addies in the search I run, but it may apply to all email servers. I don't understand much of the techie stuff but there was something there about smtp (some code number) MX records. I think that if you send mail it does the rounds over a certain timescale, i.e. 2 days, and if it can't reach the recipient it is sent back to sender as "undeliverable".

I also found this on the Client host rejected:

THE PROBLEM: The mail server - source IP address which is trying to send mail to whatever.com does not have proper reverse DNS entries setup or the DNS server for that mail server was not functioning at the exact instant that the mail was trying to be delivered to whatever.com.

Sounds like the problem could be ruthless spam filters by the isp involved!!!!! I am sure someone more up with things like this will be able to give a better explanation :o) I tried!!!

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Marilyn

I am one of the addy's that she had trouble with, THEIR @#$%!& spam filters absolutely SUCK. I am sorry there is no other word for it!

Then do not even get me started on service and connection. WEBTV part is not real bad, but the pc is!! GRRRR!!

I keep my webbie as it is MUCH MUCH easier to read newsgroups in and since there is no hard drive on MY end I don't and can't get virus' and all those creepy things ya'll in here get and have!!

((HUGS!))

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OKC Dave

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