No seriously.

I have been getting a lot of reports lately that when people are trying to send me an email, the email is bounced back to them with some kind of error message.

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong.

So please email me by clicking here: errortest@pennock.nl (no Rick Roll, I promise). If after a while you get an error message (or bounce email) back, please post the error message here (no need to quote the entire mail, just the relevant error).

It seems that it's mostly email coming from Hotmail accounts that get these errors so if you have a Hotmail account, I'd appreciate it if you would email me from there.

Oh, no need to write a lengthy email, since I probably won't read them anyway (unless of course the subject line entices me to do so ).

Thanks!

PS: If you have send me an email and I didn't respond, that's probably why.

Done from gmail.

sent from bd5av8r(at)gmail(dot)com

sent from hotmail also, not sent back yet... lol (bd5av8r@hot....)

[This message has been edited by htexans1 (edited 09-01-2010).]

Oh, and if you have sent an email, could you please add your "Sent" to this thread so I can check which emails have arrived and which haven't?

sent.

Subject line: Synthesis from PFF

Sent from yahoo

sent

Ok, I probably *am* going to read them all because some of them are just too darn funny.

Just tried sending one from my Hotmail account, after it had been 'sent' I went to my inbox, and it immediately came back

quote This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. errortest@pennock.nl

[This message has been edited by RWDPLZ (edited 09-01-2010).]

I WON THE NIGERIAN LOTTERY!!! Oh, wait... was that you?

*beep*

This is a test. This is only a test.

*beep*

quote Originally posted by RWDPLZ: Just tried sending one from my Hotmail account, after it had been 'sent' I went to my inbox, and it immediately came back

Odd. I got the second (or third) mail just fine.

quote Originally posted by Cheever3000: I WON THE NIGERIAN LOTTERY!!! Oh, wait... was that you?

No, that was me....and I'm STILL waiting for your account info, BTW!!
Jeez...I wish I still had my Hotmail account...

sent
Nothing bounced yet

sent

Neither returned here (from GMAIL or Hotmail)

Sent gmail from my android

sent from bellsouth.net

I sent one from Hotmail, and received the message:

Delivery to the following recipients failed:

I made sure that the address was correct.

-FF
1986 Fiero 2M6

Sent from an outloock email (like hotmail?)

Sent from v8pontiacfiero.com

Sent at 1809mst
.....
1918 and no bounce

from my server log (qmail/debian)

code:

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@400000004c7ef9632f6fe1fc new msg 3143300
@400000004c7ef9632f7062e4 info msg 3143300: bytes 1766 from <xxxx@xxxxxxxx.net> qp 19020 uid 1011
@400000004c7ef963307e739c starting delivery 144385: msg 3143300 to remote errortest@pennock.nl
@400000004c7ef963307e92dc status: local 0/10 remote 1/255
@400000004c7ef968204475bc delivery 144385: success: 217.148.167.146_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_2.0.0_Ok:_queued_as_4561A228CD/
@400000004c7ef9682045f48c status: local 0/10 remote 0/255
@400000004c7ef9682046bbc4 end msg 3143300

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[This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 09-01-2010).]

just for people to know, a friend of mine had her hotmail account hacked and taken over. I would get two scam emails a day from it and could not figure out why till i talked to her.

i have been told by other friends that hers is not the only one. so just a fyi for ya.

Looks ok:

quote errortest@pennock.nl passes the syntax check. TLD is valid. The domain is pennock.nl The mail host for pennock.nl is mail.pennock.nl. Looking up IP address for mail.pennock.nl. The IP address for mail.pennock.nl. is 217.148.167.146 217.148.167.146 is not black listed. creating socket.....OK. Attempting to connect to '217.148.167.146' on port '25'... Connected response: 220 enterprise.pennock.nl ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) sending: HELO response: 250 enterprise.pennock.nl sending: MAIL FROM tester@69.171.169.251 response: 250 2.1.0 Ok sending: RCPT TO errortest@pennock.nl response: 250 2.1.5 Ok sending: QUIT Closing socket...socket closed

Maybe a bad DNS server on some segment of the net? Did you update MX records recently, change IPs, etc?

sent from Comcast 9:54 East coast USA

sent

Tried to send it twice using the link you posted and it errored out on me both times, yahoo based. Copy and paste the address to my G-mail and it sent, topic: Umm, Okay.

Sent from McInnisUSA.com (my own SMTP server) via kc.rr.com (smart forwarder).


Edit: No bounce after 18+ hours.

[This message has been edited by Marvin McInnis (edited 09-02-2010).]

Sent from my gmail account.

Flamberge

Sent from neb.rr.com, and also another one from Hotmail.

Sent one from my suddenlink account 9-1 don't have/use hotmail.

HAGO!

sending.... one from my web-feed account (yahoo, yo) and one from this account - via my BlackBerry
the battery is very nearly dead on my phone, so it may take a bit. Enjoy the attached images.

[edit: sent]

[This message has been edited by skuzzbomer (edited 09-01-2010).]

Sent and immediately got this

quote This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. errortest@pennock.nl

EDIT: this was from a hotmail account

[This message has been edited by fastblack (edited 09-02-2010).]

quote Originally posted by kwagner: Maybe a bad DNS server on some segment of the net? Did you update MX records recently, change IPs, etc?

That what I was thinking but so far it seems only Hotmail accounts are receiving the error message. Oddly enough if you try a second time from the same Hotmail account, it usually goes through without a problem.

Problem is that Hotmail error messages are very undescriptive, so they give no clue as what might be wrong.

(and no, I didn't not change any of the records recently)

Sent from aconey1@sc.rr.com

Road Runner email server

sent

I think I figured out what was causing the errors when sending from Hotmail. Apparently, a lot of Hotmail servers are blacklisted as sources of spam in the SORBS database. This causes my mailserver to automatically reject the incoming mail.

Doing a quick Google search on SORBS and it becomes clear the SORBS database is controversial at best.

I checked today's and yesterday's mail log and found that SORBS is indeed utterly useless and the only mails it blocked where all legit emails. So I have removed SORBS from my list of blacklist databases.

But like I said, that only seems to affect mail being send from Hotmail. Still not sure what's causing the errors from other mailers (like Yahoo).

Sent from earthlink.
Pics did not copy, sadly.

Sent from AOL and no bounceback so far

Sent