Gary VanderMolen

<marilyn.g.rowe@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1186326397.639923.64350@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 5, 12:26 am, "Gary VanderMolen" <g...@NoMail.invalid> wrote:
>> 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.r...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews: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 n...@hisname.com
>>
>> > Does that help?
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> Gary.
>
> I don't know if other people are having trouble emailing him. I guess
> my biggest concern is this....Would I get a temporary failure message,
> instead of a permanent failure message, if he decided he didn't want
> to get emails from me anymore? when I looked up some information on
> the web, it made it sound like a temp message happened more often,
> when someone was having trouble with their connection (i.e. power
> outage, etc.) and I do know that he did have some trouble recently.
> He's pretty 'computer savvy, but he works out of town a lot, so I'm
> not sure that he has that much time to work on his email account when
> something does go wrong. I guess I'm feeling a little paranoid! ha!
>
> Not that computer savvy! =)
> me

If this guy is really savvy he might be able to fake a temporary failure
message, but it sounds like a lot of trouble to go to.
If you have any suspicion that the recipient is singling you out for
a failure message, you could test that theory by emailing him from
another account, such as a new Hotmail account.
A temporary failure typically happens when the recipient's mail server
is online but not working properly.
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Gary VanderMolen