Thanks to Merv & Ronni for these threads - at least I know the problem is not just with my account! One of the threads mentions Internode as being one of the ISPs affected so I guess in my case it's an Internode/Bigpond issue.
Not rectified though Ronni, I just got another Delivery Status Notification email (delivery attempts: 12) for an email sent around 13:00 yesterday. Thanks for the help! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/4/08 11:54 AM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil > This forum may throw some light on your issue. > Merv > http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=960165 > on 22/4/08 11:58 AM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apparently BigPond blacklisted some ISP's, iiNet was one for a time. > Should be rectified now. > <http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=958552&p=-1#bottom> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 22/04/2008, at 11:36 AM, Laura Webb wrote: > >> Yes, I am also having problems with bigpond addresses. Emails sent >> are being returned but not until three days later. I have contacted >> the intended recipients and they can offer no reason for the hiccup. >> >> Some time ago there was a similar problem. At that time iinet >> advised me that emails to bigpond addresses were being blocked and >> there was nothing they could do about it. Eventually it righted >> itself but in the meantime very frustrating. Particularly having to >> wait three days before realising the email has not reached its >> destination. >> >> I'll be interested to know if anyone has any further knowledge of >> the problem. >> >> Regards >> Laura >> >> On 22/04/2008, at 10:20 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >>> Is anyone else experiencing bigpond email problems? >>> >>> Yesterday I was getting an error message trying to retrieve mail from >>> bigpond (other non-bipgpond email accounts working fine). To keep >>> an eye on >>> things I sent off a couple of test emails to my bigpond address. >>> >>> Later the connection problem seemed to resolve and I no longer get >>> error >>> messages trying to retrieve mail - however my test messages did not >>> come >>> back. >>> >>> Then I got a Delivery Status Notification email - similar to the >>> one below >>> but at less delivery attempts (5 from memory). >>> >>> So I sent another (third) test message - and this went through OK >>> and I >>> received it back very quickly - so I assumed everything was now OK >>> (though I >>> wondered what happened to the first two test messages). >>> >>> This morning when I fired up the email there were more Delivery >>> Status >>> Notification emails (including one below) which correspond to both >>> the first >>> two test messages. >>> >>> So I sent another test message - and so far I have not got that >>> back either >>> (no Delivery Status Notifications for this one yet). >>> >>> So... If I am reading the error message correctly: >>> >>> - the SMTP server at my ISP Internode is still trying to send my >>> first two >>> test messages but bigpond is not accepting them? >>> >>> - although the message says "temporary failure" and "not accepting >>> messages >>> at this time" a subsequent message (test 3) WAS accepted and got >>> through (so >>> messages WERE being accepted at that time) but the original two >>> were still >>> not accepted. >>> >>> - although no Delivery Status Notification has been received as >>> yet, a >>> fourth test email has still not been received despite a number of >>> "receive" >>> attempts which seemed to connect without problem - so it seems >>> bigpond is >>> still not accepting email to my bigpond address. >>> >>> Is anyone else with bigpond experiencing similar problems. Anyone >>> have any >>> ideas? >>> >>> By the way, just to clarify: >>> >>> - I used to have bigpond dial-up so have a bigpond email account. >>> - I went to Broadband with Internode (so all outgoing emails are sent >>> through the Internode SMTP serverbut kept the cheapest bigpond dial- >>> up >>> ($25/year) to keep my bigpond email address. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> >>> Neil >>> -- >>> Neil R. Houghton >>> Albany, Western Australia >>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> ------ Forwarded Message >>>> From: Mail Delivery System - BM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Date: 22 Apr 2008 06:10:24 +0930 >>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Delay) >>>> >>>> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. >>>> >>>> THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. >>>> >>>> YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. >>>> >>>> Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed. >>>> >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> The reason for the problem: >>>> 4.3.2 - Not accepting messages at this time 421-'Message rejected' >>>> >>>> Reporting-MTA: dns; ipmail05.adl2.internode.on.net >>>> >>>> Final-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Action: delayed >>>> Status: 4.0.0 (temporary failure) >>>> Remote-MTA: dns; [61.9.168.122] >>>> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 4.3.2 - Not accepting messages at this time >>>> 421-'Message rejected' (delivery attempts: 9) >>>> Will-Retry-Until: 26 Apr 2008 13:30:32 +0930 >>> >>> ------ End of Forwarded Message >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
