Genealogy Chat

Sue and Janet - got your e mails ok ! I'm with freeserve by the way. Mary

Mary - I've just picked up your email, and have replied - hasn't come back yet, and I'm wondering if you've received it. How strange that you didn't receive my other one - it must still be out in cyberspace somewhere! I'm using btopenworld, if that's any help to those who understand things! Janet

I can't work this out, just had an email from Mary this morning sent one back on the reply and it has just come back from the postmaster?? Sue.................. Morning Mary !

Eeek ! Have I been infected ?? Still no e mails from Sue or Janet - plenty of other junk stuff which I've got rid of. What is the answer to all this and if I do have a virus how do I know its me and how do I get rid of it ? Mary

Hi Judy, Thanks for all the explaining that you have given us, about these emails coming back, I only took the hotmail on because my son said that you can access it any place in the world, I have just gone to yahoo and sent an email to my friend to the same email address as I used to sent to her, but like she said above she has not got that either, so what can I do now, is it my friend that possibly has a virus on her machine or is it me? Sue........................

For a better, free, e-mail account, Y A H O O beats H O T M A I L hands down. I have several accounts with both and I find that Y A H O O (knock wood) has given me no problems, as where H O T M A I L tends to censor incoming mail. I've also attempted on a few sites, to sign up for various things, and when asked for an e-mail account by the site, H O T M A I L was not an acceptable e-mail account....I had to use one of my Y A H O O accounts. .....which the site then accepted as a legitimate address. Y A H O O also offers twice as much mailbox space than H O T M A I L. Judy

Hate to tell you Sue but I haven't got it yet. Didn't get Janets either. This is starting to be a bit spooky !!! Mary

Hi Crista, They are form my hot mail, I still get them sent back even if I don't send an atachment, mind you touch wood I have emailed Mary tonight and it has not come back yettt. Sue

Sue, Was this sent from your H otmail account? I have seen some messages returned because of H otmail advertising attached at the bottom. Where there any attachments in your message and what is the subject line? Freeserve could be rejecting it because the subject is similar to some of the viruses going around. Crista

Janet - that's normally the message I get if and when mails get returned. It does seem to be hit and miss - one day it gets returned, next day it goes through. Mary Just checked my e mails - nothing from you so far Janet.

Some ISP's filters percieve auto replys as the same as Spam generated automatically, so reject it. When you e-mail direct it gets through. Not much you can do about that. The ISP 's have to sort it. Bob

Mary and I have had another try. She emailed me, and I tried to automatically 'Reply', but it was returned to me. I then created a new email, using the address in my address book, sent it and it went OK. This is the message I received when my email was bounced back:- (I've deleted the actual email address contained within the message) This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: (MARY'S EMAIL ADDRESS WAS HERE) SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host mail-in.freeserve.com [193.252.22.143]: 550 Error: Message content rejected Has anyone got any ideas about what this problem is all about?

Just to add my twopenn'orth .... Mary emailed me the other day and I clicked 'reply' and sent one back to her, and it was returned to me, but I can't remember the message. I then sent her the same email, but through my 'contacts' address and it went through OK. I couldn't see any difference in the addresses at all, as I checked. Very strange! Janet

I had one today from somebody on blueyonder, I was using AOL. I sent a reply and it came back undelivered.

Hi Judy, I will when it happens again, from what I can remember it says it is from the postmaster, a message comes up in the right hand corner. Sue......................

Sue, Can you post the error message you are getting here? Crista

Thanks Judy for that advice, I will set up a Yahoo account tonight. Regards Sue................

Mary: No, you would use the Y A H O O account in addition to the e-mail account you already have. This is just another another account. I have several accounts myself and use them for various reasons. I have one I use for people I share with in cases where sending and recieving e-mail have been a problem, one I use for GC correspondence and another for when I have to give an e-mail account when signing up for something on the internet as many of the sites that require you to leave an e-mail address then turn around and either use it themselves or sell it to internet spammers who then bombard you with spam mail. Using Y A H O O account then sends most of spam mail to this account and leaves my personal e-mail account, that I use for friends and family, a little less cluttered with that annoying spam mail we all get. Judy

Thanks. Well I'm not with hotmail but I know someone who is and mail has come back from them on occassions. Maybe it would make sense to have another account. Would this have to be instead of what I have ? It's not actually my computer so I daren't fiddle about with it too much. Mary

Mary, Yes, a virus would be reason to have mail bounced back at you if there was an attachment attached to the e-mail being sent.....text messages are not usually suspect of viruses. Some of the new and improved ISP e-mail virus checkers though are picking up things that they "suspect" as being a virus when they're really not which would also be a reason mail is coming back. H o t m a i l is notorious, for example, of censoring your mail and deciding whether an e-mail goes back to the sender or not. Most people aren't aware they're not receiving all their mail until the sender of the e-mail advises them that mail is being bounced back. Until it' sorted out, as to why mail isn't going through, you may want to open a free Y A H O O e-mail account that you and your friend can both access and you both can send and recieve mail through t.....just a thought. Judy