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shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 1065
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 10:22 am: |     |
Anyone else having a problem sending email to hotmail addresses from a Comcast address? I keep getting "550 permit denied." Seems that a lot of people are having this problem. I was wondering if any of you MOLers have the secret solution. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11057
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 10:34 am: | |
550 means "mailbox unavailable".
1. You might have the wrong address.
2. That account might be closed.
3. That account might be suspended, and a possible reason is the recipient has run out of space to receive mail.
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shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 1066
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 - 11:38 am: | |
Tom, thanks for your quick response. Actually, none of the above is true. I am responding directly to emails that are sent to me five minutes before I respond. I googled "550 permit denied," and it seems a lot of Comcast people are having this problem. It has something to do with hotmail and some other domains blocking email from a particular Comcast server. I figure one of the tech gurus around here might now how to get around this. |
kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 847
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 - 3:13 pm: | |
I had the same problem.
I have a new Gmail account and had to send everything through that account to my Hotmail friends.
I agree - my "research" seems to say that Hotmail is blocking all Comcast email because it is the source of most Spam. |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1391
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 2, 2005 - 10:15 pm: | |
Microsoft is blaming it on the Sober virus.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051203/D8E8E1D06.html |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1912
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 12:38 am: | |
This likely means that Microsoft is either blocking or throttling the mail from Comcast (or one of their servers). Very doubtful it's some kind of unintentional consequence. |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 2872
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 3, 2005 - 9:16 am: | |
I'm having that problem too, intermittantly, both with hotmail and msn addresses, from the comcast address I use for an organization. I couldn't send anything to them a few days ago, even though the same addresses worked fine from my personal (speakeasy) email. However, yesterday they worked from comcast, so the situation seemed to have righted itself. I think I had seen this a few weeks or months ago also. |
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