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<div>At 11:13 AM -0400 9/19/07, you wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I jsut got this message on my mail server
from one of my users. I'm<br>
not sure about it and I can only find two hits on google, and they
are<br>
in french.<br>
<br>
451-The server has reached its limit for processing requests from your
host<br>
<br>
Anyone know what this means? The details of the email are that
there<br>
is a user on vacation, and she is forwarding her email to her
personal<br>
email address, and this is what we are getting back.</blockquote>
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The basic smtp message is a hard reject and means:<br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">451
Requested action aborted: local error in processing</font></div>
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<div>...for whatever reason. The server appears to only allow so
many connections from a single host. Probably and
anti-spam/anti-relay setting. </div>
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<div>From RFC1893 on<font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#000000"> Enhanced Mail System Status Codes</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">X.4.5
Mail system congestion<br>
<br>
The mail system
was unable to deliver the message because<br>
the mail system
was congested. This is useful only as a<br>
persistent
transient error.</font></div>
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<div>What MTA are you using on the server? Did you check the
queue??</div>
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<div>Ed</div>
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