I have tried to send an email (text only, no attachments etc) to a KNOWN address. On each OCCASION it is bounced back, each time with a different ATT data file attached - ATT00007.dat, ATT00035.dat, ATT00043.dat & ATT00061.dat. The same happened when I send a shorter test message, the data file being ATT00092.dat. Sending the email to ANOTHER address succeeds.

Must I presume that there is SOMETHING wrong with the recipients address and that the different ATT numbers simply indicate the order in which they were issued rather than an indication of the error?

Many thanks

doclee There should have been some more text in the body of the return email that indicates why it was rejected. Are you sure there was nothing else? If you could paste the contents of the bounce email into a message here we can probably TELL you what's wrong.Your Majesty,

(tugs forelock several times, hair falls out)

Herewith I humbly offer the contents of the message contained in the latest of the ATT Datafiles (with the proposed recipient's address suitably veiled).

Reporting-MTA: dns;cluster4
Received-From-MTA: dns;smtp-in3.blueyonder.co.uk
Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:51 +0100

Final-Recipient: rfc822;****@blueyonder.co.uk
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
X-Display-Name: *****[emailprotected]

Offering my humble thanks, I am, Sir, Your most obsequious servant

doclee

a Failed 5.2.2 USUALLY means that the recipients mailbox is full or that the email being sent to them is too large. Since it's a small message with no attachment being sent to them I must assume that their mailbox is full. That is most likely the answer.Your Majesty,

(tugs on forelock but finds it is missing)

If I have inadvertently misunderstood your request and included the wrong information, perhaps this is what you required from the body of the message, subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure):

"This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

****@blueyonder.co.uk"

I humbly apologise
Gosh, Your Majesty, but that is what I call rapid. many thanks.

doclee