email

[barney31]

I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection
notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:
smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.
What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.
Barney31

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Are you sending the message via the web-mail page or via a Mail Client
(e.g., Outlook Express)?

Are you sending the message to just one person or many?

 

[Lem]

I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection
notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:
smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.
What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.
Barney31

And to add to PA Bear's questions, if you are using a mail client, are
you sending from a computer connected via Verizon?

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Twayne]

I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a
rejection notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress;
Diagnostic code: smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.
What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any
info. Barney31

That's usually caused by a server program PostFix. In general, it's used
to limit spamers who make "dictionary attack" spam attempts. In other
words, they make up names to spam to at a particular domain. The domain
counts how many invalid addresses are sent and if it's more than a
certain number, they'll return that message. So for the users of that
domain, it effectively handles dictionary spam attacks.

If you're only sending mail to ONE person, and are not sending mails to
non-existing addresses, you shouldn't see that message. If you are
seeing it when you mail to only one person, then the admin for that
domain has most likely screwed up their postfix settings.
But if you're just banging the server with address after address,
trying to find the right one becuse you don't recall it, you may be
getting legitimately caught if their counters are low, say set at 3 or 4
bad addresses. Then, if you happen to have a long term, or a static IP,
you could easily get caught in a loop that catches you everytime if
their setups are wrong, which is likely.

If they've screwed it up it's hard to tell what's actually wrong but
it's at their end and nothing you can do to fix it, unless you're
spamming which we'll assume you are not. Most likely they're not
resetting counters and they're not keeping IPs straight. Or not getting
good IPs or not the right ones, etc., so you are probably one of many
who gets the message by trying to send a mail while their counters
aren't reset yet and your IP isn't recognized/updated yet. So they're
either not updating something correctly or not resetting counters for
new IPs, things like that.
Neophyte admins often screw up postfix among other things. And VZ
has a lot of neophytes; cheap employees, in other words.

If you like to read, here's a discussion you might find useful:
http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0702/0840.html

I'd recommend the RFC but can't locate it at the moment. Anyone else
know it?

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[barney31]

I am using verizon's email. The address to which I'm emailing is a very odd
server. The destination is somewhere in Ohio, and it is just one person.
Thank you.

 

[barney31]

Yes, I'm sending from a comp via verizon.

And to add to PA Bear's questions, if you are using a mail client, are
you sending from a computer connected via Verizon?

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Is this a sudden, new problem or an ongoing one? What's your friend's email
address? (Don't post his real email address, use a name@ format instead;
e.g., (e-mail address removed).)

Assuming your friend's email address is correct, there are a few
possibilities here:

1. Your friend's mailserver is identifying you as a spammer, possibly
because you've attempted to resend this message to him so many times (or
you've sent so many other emails to him in a brief period of time);

2. Your friend's email address has become the target of a "spambot" sending
from another (e-mail address removed) account (or possibly your (e-mail address removed)
account, which does NOT necessarily mean your computer's infected); or...

3. There are temporary problems on your friend's mailserver's back end
that'll probably automagically clear up over time (e.g., hours/days).