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Hi everyone,
Does anyone happen to know what causes me to receive a 'delivery failure notice' when I send an e-mail from IE, whether it's from a tablet, a smartphone or in this case, a local Fedex Office where I am now?
It only happens when sending them to certain recipients, and pops up very intermittently.
This is really exasperating and perplexing, so any help would be appreciated.
Although a mistyped email address is usually the reason this happens, there are others.
The recipient's Inbox may be full which prevents them from receiving email.
The recipient has chosen not to receive any email from anyone.
The recipient has chosen not to receive any email from you.
Your IP address has been blacklisted (associated with SPAM).
Your ISP prevented the email from being sent because a file which is too large was attached.
Your email address has been hijacked by spammers.
The recipient may have changed their email address and the one you have is no longer valid.
Here follows an explanation of each.
If the recipient's Inbox is full, they'll have to empty it, or at least reduce the amount of space being eaten up by moving messages into the Archive folder, or a custom folder in order to create space in the Inbox.
The email address is a "No Reply" type a.k.a. "Bounce". When email arrives, it's immediately bounced back to the sender with the delivery failure notice. You can check that by looking at the headers. Depending on your email client, open the failure notice, then go to "View" | "Message headers" and look for the entry called "Return path". If the address is "no reply@name" or "bounce@name", then that's the reason.
This one is the similar #2 except the recipient has a filter in place which bounces the mail back to you and anyone else they've chosen not to receive mail from.
Self explanatory I think. ISPs don't allow files larger than certain size to be sent as attachments. Use a application like WinRAR (paid for) or 7-zip (free) to compress the file before sending it.
The bounce message (the delivery failure notification email) should tell you why it couldn't be delivered. As others have said, it's most often a typo in the address or an address that no longer exists. The fact that this happens only with certain recipients supports that hypothesis.
This has happened to me, too, on occasion, and it's has been because of an over-zealous anti-spam mail filter on the recipient's end. My email address does look "spam-ish" because it's bizarre and doesn't contain any sort of name. Some school and business mail systems look at my address and deem it spam, and it bounces back.
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