On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:42:11PM -0400, Michelle Vadeboncoeur wrote:
can anyone determine from the status codes what software the Reporting-MTA is? Maybe the reason is hidden in that code. Your mysterious non-delivery generated a Status: 5.0.0
Status 5.0.0 is a generic error code in SMTP.
besides the status codes being different, it's my server rejecting the email, and not a response from hotmail.
Correct, the bounce will occur from the last mail server to receive the message on the journey. In your case, hotmail denied the mail at the point where they were receiving the message, so your sending server bounces the message back to you. The other bounce message (that we're actually talking about) seems to come from inside hotmail itself, but it gives no information other than: Reporting-MTA: dns;hotmail.com Received-From-MTA: dns;dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net Final-Recipient: rfc822;kamikaze003@hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 So we know that "hotmail.com" (and who knows what server that actually is) thought it could deliver the mail, so it accepted it, but ended up unable to deliver the message for unknown reasons (no description given), so it bounced back to the sender. I don't see how this problem would have any relation to Charter, Linux, pine, etc. It seems to be very much a Hotmail specific issue. I'd start bugging postmaster@hotmail.com to be honest. There's not much else to do. :( -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "I know that, you know that, but kids just don't make news unless they're arrested for drugs, gangs, or some form of violence..." - Michelle "or sports..." - Theo's response