So, in other words, this friend has a domain name that consists of
his name +.com.
Sounds like your friend does not have his domain DNS set up properly.
Does anyone else have trouble emailing him?
I have no way of checking his domain DNS setup for correctness
without knowing the exact domain name.
Gary VanderMolen
<marilyn.g.rowe@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186280482.177426.225000@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 4, 5:50 pm, "Gary VanderMolen" <g...@NoMail.invalid> wrote:
>> Did you edit that non-delivery notice in any way?
>> I don't see a valid email address. Can you tell us your friend's
>> email address (leaving off the part in front of the @ symbol).
>>
>> Gary VanderMolen
>>
>> <marilyn.g.r...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1186263187.092430.121210@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> > Hey!
>>
>> > Below, you will find the message I received after sending an email to
>> > a friend. I'm trying to decide if he lost power, etc. or if I've been
>> > blacklisted. When I click on his name in this message, it says
>> > "FORBIDDEN You don't have permission to access / on this server". I
>> > know he's been having a lot of email trouble (lost service for about a
>> > month, etc) and he lives in a higher elevation, if that has any effect
>> > on his service. I was also wondering if it is coming from his end or
>> > possibly from something that could be going wrong on mine! Any help
>> > would be appreciated.
>>
>> > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
>>
>> > THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
>>
>> > YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
>>
>> > Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:
>> > recipient's name.com
>>
>> > Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)
>>
>> > Technical details of temporary failure:
>> > TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:
>> > [recipient's name.com (1): Connection refused]
>
> Thanks for responding....I did not alter in any way. In fact, I
> copied and pasted except for the friend's name.
>
> In the message, it was always just:
>
> His name.com
>
> I do think he has his own domain.
> His normal email address is:
>
> his name@hisname.com
>
> Does that help?