Re: Multiple emails sent over and over

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From: eddiec (chalk_at_NOSPAMnetspace.net.au)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:56:09 +1100

try sending mail via telnet session and see what response their mail server
gives after you have gone through with a smtp telnet session. it could be
giving an incorrect response which makes your exchange server think that the
message has not been sent when in reality it has been

see
"Eric" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2dc901c507b9$15edb010$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> The problem I have is I have a user who could not send an
> email to a specific person. My user would get over 50
> ndr's.
> So I sent a test message to this person, and I also
> received many ndr's. Then I sent an email to the specific
> persons ISP. Well, the kept getting the same email from
> me over and over and over, but I would get ndr's in my
> mailbox.
>
> The ndr is as follows:
> Your message did not reach some or all of the intended
> recipients.
>
> Subject:
>
> The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
>
> support@whoever.net on 1/31/2005 8:36 AM
> The e-mail system was unable to deliver the
> message, but did not report a specific reason. Check the
> address and try again. If it still fails, contact your
> system administrator.
> < nocmailsvc111.whoever.org #5.0.0>
>
> So I go into esm and look in the queue, and sure enough,
> it's trying to resend the message, so I froze it.
>
> Any idea's why my exchange server 2000, sp3 would be
> doing this?

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