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 for a comparison returned email, I send a test message to a friend's inactive hotmail account (disabled for lack of use). I sent it using Pine on a linux box running sendmail. sorry, I'm not on charter so I can't completely replicate things... besides the status codes being different, it's my server rejecting the email, and not a response from hotmail. ---------- Forwarded message ----------

From MAILER-DAEMON@kluge.net Tue Apr 30 15:34:51 2002 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:23 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: mrv@eclectic.kluge.net Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 from mrv@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- (reason: 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx09.hotmail.com.:

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RCPT To: <<< 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown

[ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; eclectic.kluge.net Arrival-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Final-Recipient: RFC822; outlaweagle@hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx09.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:22 -0400 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (mrv@localhost) by eclectic.kluge.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UJOL702343 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Michelle Vadeboncoeur To: craig roberts Subject: testing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII