Hi On Monday 2 November 2009 at 10:18:56 PM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Gene wrote:
>>> the message stays in the Outbox and continues to >>> attempt delivery... thus sending an unending stream >>> of duplicate messages to the succesfully delivered >>> addresses..... M>> That doesn't happen for me. > It doen't to me, every time.... I expect you mean "does" (-; It seems very odd. I have just tested with four different domains. I created emails to several recipients including a non-existent address. When the non-existent address was on a valid domain but not the same domain as the smtp server I was sending through, all four domains accepted their test message and it went from my outbox. Three of the four later sent me bounce messages saying the remote server had rejected the message. It was delivered to the other addresses it was meant for. When the undeliverable address was on the same domain as the smtp server I was sending through, two servers accepted the test message as normal, so it went from my outbox. So far one of these has sent me a "User is unknown" bounce message. The other two servers both spotted one recipient was an "unknown user" and refused to accept the message for any address at all. It stayed in my outbox and was not delivered to any address. When the undeliverable address was on a now-defunct domain, one of the servers spotted it and said "cannot resolve your domain" and refused to accept the message. It stayed in my outbox and was not delivered to any address. The other three servers accepted it as normal, delivered it to the other addresses as normal, and two sent me bounce messages about the unrouteable domain. All of the servers I used for the test either rejected the message (causing it to stay in my outbox and not be delivered to any address), or they accepted the message (so it was gone from my outbox and got delivered to the valid, routeable addresses). If you have had the message remain in your outbox but also get delivered to some of the addresses, I guess the server you are sending out through is not behaving correctly. -- Best regards MFPA Yellow snow is not lemon flavoured Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
