Leonard Morgenstern ([email protected]) wrote: > I recently sent an e-mail to a woman whose address contained a dot. It > bounced. I received the following message. (I have changed the address > to protect her privacy.) > > ====== > 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. > > <[email protected]>: > 207.115.21.20 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 553 5.3.0 <[email protected]>... Addressee > unknown, relay=[69.147.64.91] > Giving up on 207.115.21.20. > --- Below this line is a copy of the message. > [original message omitted] > ==== > > After several tries, I sent it successfully using Apple's Mail program. > I don't know whether the problem lies in PowerMail or yahoo.com.
Most likely it is neither. PowerMail had delivered the mail to your mailserver, i.e. yahoo.com, and yahoo received the message alright. At that point, PM was done with it and yahoo.com took charge, trying to deliver the message to the recipient's mail server, namely sbcglobal.net. But then the latter complained to yahoo.com that the intended recipient was unknown, so yahoo.com gave up and relayed the error message back to you. Since you were eventually successful, I suppose this was a temporary glitch and that the recipient's server was at fault. Either that, or the address you used with PM contained an error. Mail servers are quite unforgiving when dealing with even the smallest of typos. - Michael Michael J. Hußmann E-mail: [email protected] WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
