[SOLVED] "delivery failed; will not continue trying"
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A friend set up his first mailing list. One addressee returns,
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"delivery failed; will not continue trying"
with no further explanation or error number. I can't find this text in sendmail's source or the SMTP RFC. When I search the Web I get incidents of it in unrelated discussions. As best as I can guess the sender tried without response until the sender timed out. Is there more to it?
I suspect that the message came from the addressee's email server. In my experience, most email servers will try to deliver an email a set number of times, then give up and notify the sender that the mail was undeliverable.
The first step I would take is to verify the intended recipient's email address.
I suspect that the message came from the addressee's email server.
How can the recipient's SMTP server not know what to do with the message? If the addressee doesn't exist it will report that. If the addressee rejects it that's the addressee's business: the addressee's SMTP server puts the message in the addressee's mailbox and has delivered it as far as it's concerned.
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Originally Posted by frankbell
The first step I would take is to verify the intended recipient's email address.
How can the recipient's SMTP server not know what to do with the message?
All I can say is that I have received similar messages ("unable to deliver after X attempts"). I don't know enough about email (email is hideously complicated under the hood) to theorize what events might account for such a failure.
No offense taken. My friend just told me that he didn't care about this addressee, that it wasn't his daughter but some website to which she had referred him. Sorry.
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