Problems sending Emails

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 29 18:06:06 UTC 2009


Les wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 12:27 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Jim wrote:
>>     
>>> Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 2009/4/29 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
>>>>  
>>>>         
>>>>> FC10/KDE4.2/ Thunderbird
>>>>>
>>>>> Sending Email Out to AOL.com.
>>>>> When I send a Email to a person at AOL.com I get a email , Failure 
>>>>> to Send ,
>>>>> Has anyone had problems like this ?
>>>>> They say the reason they can't send is because of a  "421 Error"
>>>>>
>>>>> My ISP ATT says it's because of Thunderbird, So I just hung up on them.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Jim,
>>>> Your question is not very complete. It would be better to know _who_
>>>> emits that error and the complete string.  What your ISP ATT is saying
>>>> exactly about Thunderbird?  The 421 error could refer to many
>>>> protocols...
>>>>
>>>> Check these parameters:
>>>>  * The SMTP server should be a valid.
>>>>  * Also the recipient.
>>>>
>>>> Bye
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> I did verify the smtp settings with my ISP and they they are correct.
>>> By reading the "Failure" email I'm getting back, below is the part of 
>>> the email.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
>>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following 
>>> addresses.
>>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>>>
>>> <xxxxxxxx at aol.com>:
>>> 64.12.222.197 does not like recipient.
>>> Remote host said: 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
>>> Giving up on 64.12.222.197.
>>>
>>>       
>> I'am having only problems with emails to aol.com. I'm sbcglobal.net.
>> Below is the full Failure  message below, I xxx out email addresses and 
>> names
>>
>>
>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>>
>> <xxxxx at aol.com>:
>> 64.12.222.197 does not like recipient.
>> Remote host said: 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
>> Giving up on 64.12.222.197.
>>
>>     
> The email address was rejected.  Probably the XXXXX name.  Most spam
> filters will reject email with multiple X's in the account name because
> that is often spam or an attempt to hide the identity of the sender.
>
> If both are yours, and their spam filter was not the reject cause, you
> may discover that the registry had not yet fully propagated over their
> network of servers, and so a few minutes or days later it might work.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
>
>   
I put the xxxxx in to block out the emails and names before sending to 
fedora-maillist.
sbcglobal is my email and aol is person I sent email.




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