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Old 05-15-2008   #2 (permalink)
Bob
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Re: Windows Live Mail Photo Emails Problem

Which AV program do you have installed? If you have email scanning enabled,
disable it. You don't need it as long as you have resident protection
running.

"Frustrated virgin user" <Frustrated virgin user@xxxxxx>
wrote in message news:307FB119-6F9F-48C2-9496-0AA3682C336A@xxxxxx
Quote:

>I have recently had a long 'support' conversation with virgin.net regarding
> an error message I keep getting when sending a "photo email" using Windows
> Live Mail. Virgin are my ISP for the internet and I have email addresses
> with
> them ending virgin.net. The error code is reproduced below:
> An unknown error has occurred.
>
> Subject 'xxxxxxxxxx'
> Server Error: 554
> Server Response: 554 5.7.1 Requested action not taken: Message was spam or
> contained virus
> Server: 'mail.virgin.net'
> Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x800CCC6F
> Protocol: SMTP
> Port: 25
> Secure(SSL): No
>
> In my discussion with virgin support the conclusion was reached that when
> a
> "photo email" is created there is a stage of "preparing photos" before the
> email is placed in the outbox. This would appear to be where the problem
> occurs in that some code is added to the photograph for it to be
> identified
> when uploaded to the WLM server (this would make sense as the email
> recipient
> would then click on the thumbnail image in the email to download the
> hi-res
> image from the server). It seems that virgin.net & maybe some other ISPs
> see
> this embedded code as possibly malicious and therefore reject the email
> with
> the error message above.
> Some work needs to be done here. Has anyone else experienced the same
> problem and, more importantly have they resolved the issue.