Help on not being able to deliver mail... ???

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> I routinely get bounce messages from Charter.com when emailing a friend
> of mine in Texas, but she always gets the messages anyway. 

What do they say?  Sometimes you'll get a "temporarily unavailable" type
message that says delivery will be retried.

> I've emailed 
> the contact address listed for Charter in the bounce messages a couple
> of times explaining the problem, but have to date not received a reply
> from them, or seen a fix for the problem occur.
> 
> Just one of those annoying things that happen with some isp's.

Uh-huh.  One of the most abused requirements of the mail RFCs is that
bounces should come from a routeable email address.  Most of the ones I
get, don't, and the rest probably come from an address that routes straight
to the bit-bucket.
-- 
derek