windows xp email

[Guest barney31]

I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:

smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

Barney31

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Are you sending the message via the web-mail page or via a Mail Client

(e.g., Outlook Express)?

 

Are you sending the message to just one person or many?

--

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

 

 

barney31 wrote:

> I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

> notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic

> code:

> smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

> What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

[Guest Lem]

barney31 wrote:

> I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

> notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:

> smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

> What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

> Barney31

 

And to add to PA Bear's questions, if you are using a mail client, are

you sending from a computer connected via Verizon?

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

[Guest Twayne]

"barney31" wrote in message

news:1349B8FE-E10D-4E21-907F-19CA65DDE884@microsoft.com

> I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a

> rejection notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress;

> Diagnostic code: smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

> What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any

> info. Barney31

 

That's usually caused by a server program PostFix. In general, it's used

to limit spamers who make "dictionary attack" spam attempts. In other

words, they make up names to spam to at a particular domain. The domain

counts how many invalid addresses are sent and if it's more than a

certain number, they'll return that message. So for the users of that

domain, it effectively handles dictionary spam attacks.

 

If you're only sending mail to ONE person, and are not sending mails to

non-existing addresses, you shouldn't see that message. If you are

seeing it when you mail to only one person, then the admin for that

domain has most likely screwed up their postfix settings.

But if you're just banging the server with address after address,

trying to find the right one becuse you don't recall it, you may be

getting legitimately caught if their counters are low, say set at 3 or 4

bad addresses. Then, if you happen to have a long term, or a static IP,

you could easily get caught in a loop that catches you everytime if

their setups are wrong, which is likely.

 

If they've screwed it up it's hard to tell what's actually wrong but

it's at their end and nothing you can do to fix it, unless you're

spamming which we'll assume you are not. Most likely they're not

resetting counters and they're not keeping IPs straight. Or not getting

good IPs or not the right ones, etc., so you are probably one of many

who gets the message by trying to send a mail while their counters

aren't reset yet and your IP isn't recognized/updated yet. So they're

either not updating something correctly or not resetting counters for

new IPs, things like that.

Neophyte admins often screw up postfix among other things. And VZ

has a lot of neophytes; cheap employees, in other words.

 

If you like to read, here's a discussion you might find useful:

http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0702/0840.html

 

I'd recommend the RFC but can't locate it at the moment. Anyone else

know it?

 

HTH,

 

Twayne`

[Guest Mr. Smith]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:57:01 -0700, barney31

wrote:

>I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

>notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:

>smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

>What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

>Barney31

 

Why ask here? This is not a problem related to XP

[Guest barney31]

I am using verizon's email. The address to which I'm emailing is a very odd

server. The destination is somewhere in Ohio, and it is just one person.

Thank you.

 

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Are you sending the message via the web-mail page or via a Mail Client

> (e.g., Outlook Express)?

>

> Are you sending the message to just one person or many?

> --

> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

>

>

> barney31 wrote:

> > I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

> > notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic

> > code:

> > smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

> > What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

>

>

[Guest barney31]

Yes, I'm sending from a comp via verizon.

 

"Lem" wrote:

> barney31 wrote:

> > I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

> > notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic code:

> > smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

> > What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.

> > Barney31

>

> And to add to PA Bear's questions, if you are using a mail client, are

> you sending from a computer connected via Verizon?

>

> --

> Lem -- MS-MVP

>

> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

>

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Is this a sudden, new problem or an ongoing one? What's your friend's email

address? (Don't post his real email address, use a name@ format instead;

e.g., name@hotmail.com.)

 

Assuming your friend's email address is correct, there are a few

possibilities here:

 

1. Your friend's mailserver is identifying you as a spammer, possibly

because you've attempted to resend this message to him so many times (or

you've sent so many other emails to him in a brief period of time);

 

2. Your friend's email address has become the target of a "spambot" sending

from another name@verizon.com account (or possibly your name@verizon.com

account, which does NOT necessarily mean your computer's infected); or...

 

3. There are temporary problems on your friend's mailserver's back end

that'll probably automagically clear up over time (e.g., hours/days).

--

~PA Bear

 

 

barney31 wrote:

> I am using verizon's email. The address to which I'm emailing is a very

> odd

> server. The destination is somewhere in Ohio, and it is just one person.

> Thank you.

>

> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

>> Are you sending the message via the web-mail page or via a Mail Client

>> (e.g., Outlook Express)?

>>

>> Are you sending the message to just one person or many?

>> --

>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)

>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

>>

>> barney31 wrote:

>>> I use verizon email. When I send an email to a friend, I get a rejection

>>> notice that states: Remote SMPT server has rejectedaddress; Diagnostic

>>> code:

>>> smpt;550 too many invalid rcpts.

>>> What does this mean, and can I fix this problem? Thank you for any info.