On 15 February 2012 11:57, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Deferred: 451 Please try again later Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old
And do they bloody well bother to _read+ what it says? No, of course they don't. You'll start getting telephone calls and alternate-delivery messages complaining about your domain 'bouncing' the sender's mail. To many such people, any notice of delivery problems is a 'bounce', and understanding what they say is Somebody Else's Problem.
To be fair it does say "Please try again later" which does suggest you need to try sending the email again - which presumably means that the previous email was lost, right? Then it says "Will keep trying ..." - Huh? It just told me to try again, what does this mean? Maybe I have to keep trying to send this silly email for 5 days or something? Obviously this "Please try again later" part is aimed at the SMTP level, not the end user; I don't think we can expect an average end user to understand this however. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>