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From: Valorie Zimmerman <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Unable to relay?
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:03:22 -0800
References: <OE67AmsfGdMNFmWAFsT000137d9@hotmail.com>


Michelle Robinson wrote:
>
> About a week ago, I sent a message asking about a bounce message that said "unable to relay" for......and listed a couple of individuals (the ISP is MSN). The response that I got back from the list said that it was usually a temporary problem and that Smartlist did not see it as a bounce, technically.
>
> I have been bounced from a list two times in two days due to "unable to relay" messages, and would like to know more about what "unable to relay" actually means. Below is part of the bounce message. Part of the question I have is why there is no X-Diagnostic line in the entire bounce message. Anyone know why?
> Thanks for suggestions and ideas!

Michelle, this doesn't look like the FULL headers, which are the ones
with the X-diagnostics. In Netscape, it is easy as pie to see the Full
Headers -- hit control u, and there they are.

Big ISPs use relaying between their various mail servers, and if
something is hosed, sometimes they are 'unable to relay' between their
own servers!

Valorie

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