Yahoo Mail - Failure Notices

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I've been using Yahoo mail for some time without any difficulty.

Recently, however, I'm receiving failure notices of the type :

This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

Sorry, I couldn't find any host named talktalk.net?. (#5.1.2)
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This is also happening with mail sent to tiscali.net, and homecall.co.uk.
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Below this line is a full copy of a failure notice message :

Received: (qmail 82001 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2009 17:53:34 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=btinternet.com;
h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:User-Agent:Date:Subject:From:To:Message-ID:Thread-Topic:Thread-Index:Mime-version:Content-type:Content-transfer-encoding;
b=kD9Z380JWGPVM4XdOC3fUzvxZS2UEhFhpyy101RpxvImCkPc2v/z4iCSFfxa2sLb3YmFoZZKYc/wcvc0Jgk0MQnMuFUZhDTaEjYRDMptubDDMt8hGrh+wk2s4f6HBdKaqdeC9L/Rfg0O4YtdkEEmyATAdNQTEIQwd2iqL1EelKY= ;
Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (shjohnston@86.140.191.112 with login)
by smtp814.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Jul 2009 17:53:34 -0000
X-Yahoo-SMTP: .6ZCWtmswBBMjLAUZX6w3aLMqFGrDyOr5SZR6ydYbl8NcWaRf00-
X-YMail-OSG: mFL1FyIVM1nqOhgtxt_pGRaqXOK0aSuPlaOqzKUXd.xPDMCpcCo_h7iQ1UBlLgcW67pwOW0iVOnZr1_fV.oZTk5Iagpo9Rb86_b81dSXSXFbq5xs9G0Psnw2xeCILcumTLo49g8IMbVgGnXQX5z_7_qyKpoiFX9nhqyWFV7haCRRDDtR22Rw1GpllKNIsDpHD0lGVWwe.rW5TqXQ1FQgYAxVBDgIWhbby7c8RQwEYo8J598Qg1BgzrpdSQNjyFb6UBJ4nbz0llQW94lUC1uM5Ryw55izDuvEIPghuJH01f3VlY3KrRVBopMb8tvjxZjjGy5rAbEgROM-
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.20.0.090605
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:53:33 +0100
Subject: Test message
From: Steve Jackson
To: Malcolm Grace
Message-ID: <C6979CAD.5094>
Thread-Topic: Test message
Thread-Index: AcoRPqeKeN0G9Z/hQbCqLYMkoH4GdQ==
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain;
charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
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I'm using a Mac G5; Mac OSX 10.4.11 with MS entourage 12.2.0

Any suggestions would be most appreciated. I've tried e-mailing Yahoo support without any response.

Many thanks.
 

EQ Admin

EQ Forum Admin
Staff member
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named talktalk.net?. (#5.1.2)
Hi bigtree,

The ? is a substitution for a space after the domain name in the error message.

You tried to send email to "username@talktalk.net ".

This can happen for a few reasons including:

  • An extra space after their address in your address book
  • An extra space after their address in their reply/from settings
  • When typing in their email address you typed in an extra space
Hopefully you'll be able to track down the source of the problem from here.

-Raymond
 

bigtree

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Hi popowich,

The ? is a substitution for a space after the domain name in the error message.


Raymond, many thanks for this answer to my difficulty. It's been driving me up the wall, so I couldn't believe that I'd missed the additional characters in the addresses. I'll be much more vigilant in the future!


Again, many thanks - your help is greatly appreciated.

Steve
 
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