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

[Ray Parrish]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
>   
Hello,

Here is the error message from one of the bounce messages.

> This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
>
> Other or undefined network or routing status
>
> Please reply to Postmaster at charter.net
> if you feel this message to be in error
Every email I send to her results in one of these error messages. I 
guess it's not real iimportant since she always gets the mail, but it's 
annoying to keep getting the bounce messages.

Later, Ray Parrish

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