Self Help on Electronic mail, error codes you may receive, and possible fixes

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Mail transit error codes - "500" codes"

550 ... Host unknown (Name server: sdcc14.ucsd.edu: host not found)

This usually is the result of trying to send a email directly to a particular email server machine, rather than the user's generic email address. That particular server may have been retired, and the user's mailbox location moved to another server.

To fix this try .user@ucsd.edu in this case. Their address for ucsd.edu at large will most commonly be pointed to where their mail is now delivered.

For more help you will need to contact the recipient via other means (phone, surface mail, a friend), to get their current email address if they no longer have a .user@ucsd.ed address.

SMTP, Server Response: '550 ... Relaying denied', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

To fix this Your email address needs to match the UCSD.EDU domain name. You will typically encounter this off campus where your email program is either shared with other people, or configured to use another Internet Service Provider (ISP). Enter your UCSD return address typically to fix this.

To get more help look at the online configuration directions for eudora or your favorite email reading program.

----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 Too many hops 26 (25 max): from via mailbox2.ucsd.edu, to

To fix this typically involves editing a badly written unix forwarding file or email list. The files in question are typically named .forward and have a logical loop sending mail from one computer to another to the first computer again. Don't put a disabled .forward back in use without fully understanding this error so it does not happen again.

To get more help See a student assistant zebra during their hours on duty.

<<< 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation (body) 554 ... Service unavailable

Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp.ucsd.edu
Arrival-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:36:07 -0700 (PDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; .user@yahoo.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.2.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; mx1.mail.yahoo.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 552 Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation (body)
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:19:28 -0700 (PDT)

To fix this problem send smaller messages. Typically this happens when you attempt to send a very large file attachment via email. Better ways may be to send a floppy disk, put the file on a web page and send the URL, or via point to point FTP.

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Mail application program error codes
Eudora Specific errors
An instance of Eudora may be running on a remote computer. Accessing a mailbox from two instances of Eudora may lead to data corruption.
Indicate how you wish to proceed.

Exit this instance.
Terminate remote instance.
Continue (I'll accept the consequences).
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To Fix this problem if you are sure that you are not running eudora elsewhere, find and remove the lock file. It should be named "Eurdora.lok", and located in the directory where you store mail. Eudora will open again once the lock (.lok) file is gone.

The host 'iacs5' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'iacs5', Server: 'iacs5', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11002, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

To fix this put in the WHOLE name of the server. In this case iacs5.ucsd.edu.

To get more help See a student assistant zebra during their hours on duty.

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Errors from Microsoft Outlook
Account: Hotmail, server: sdcc 15, Protoco P0P3, Port:110, Secure(SSL): No socket, Error; 10061, Error #OX800CCCOE.

Account: 'iacs5', Server: 'smtp.ucsd.edu', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10051, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Account: 'iacs5', Server: 'iacs5', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11002, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

To get more help See a student assistant zebra during their hours on duty.

smtp errors

"I am using MS outlook as a mail client through Road Runner. I can recieve messages from my account on sdcc13.ucsd.edu, but I can't send any mail. Last I heard, outgoing server was smtp.ucsd.edu (and I have that configured on outlook) but I get the following error message:"

Server: 'smtp.ucsd.edu', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response '550 ... Relaying denied', Port: 25, Secure (SSL): No, Server Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

Do you know how to fix this?

You need to register yourself to identify that you are a UCSD person when not on the UCSD network.

The quick SMTP link from the h**p://www-acs.ucsd.edu web page of the folks that support your sdcc13 account points you to: h**p://popmail.ucsd.edu/external.html

where you do the smtp registration.
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Concerning the 500 number codes, they don't appear to be consistent from one MTA to the next. Although their usage is recommended in a RFC, even within a single MTA, a single number can be used for many different errors. The comment following the number is most meaningful.

From a typical sendmail.cf file:
R $* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Access denied"
R $* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Access denied"
R$* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Relaying denied"

R <$+> $* $#error $@ 5.5.4 $: "553 Real domain name required"
R $* $#error $@ 5.5.4 $: "553 Domain name required"

and from the sendmail binary code:

550 Can't create output
550 Cannot open input
550 Insufficient permission
550 Host unknown
550 User unknown
550 %s
550 Address %s is unsafe for mailing to files
550 Address %s is unsafe for mailing to programs
550 Addressee unknown
550 Cannot mail directly to :include:s
550 Cannot mail directly to files
550 Cannot mail directly to programs
550 Cannot open %s: %s
550 UID %d is an unknown user: cannot mail to files
550 UID %d is an unknown user: cannot mail to programs
550 User %s@%s doesn't have a valid shell for mailing to files
550 User %s@%s doesn't have a valid shell for mailing to programs

552 Headers too large (%d max)
552 Message exceeds maximum fixed size (%ld)
552 Message is too large; %ld bytes max
552 Message size exceeds fixed maximum message size (%ld)
552 Error writing control file %s

553 %s
553 %s config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?)
553 %s... bad address
553 Address contained invalid control characters
553 Address too long
553 Address too long (%d bytes max)
553 Can't parse myself!
553 Cannot parse Postmaster!
553 Invalid numeric domain spec "%s"
553 Invalid sender address
553 cannot parse %s!
553 header syntax error, line "%s"
553 prescan: token too long
553 prescan: too many tokens
553 setsender: can't even parse postmaster!

554 Internal error
554 System file missing
554 savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere
554 Local configuration error
554 Remote protocol error
554 Service unavailable
554 %.40s... illegal alias name
554 %s... cannot alias non-local names
554 Address= option unsupported for family %d
554 Cannot send 8-bit data to 7-bit destination
554 DaemonPortOptions parameter "%s" unknown
554 Eight bit data not allowed
554 Infinite loop in ruleset %d, rule %d
554 Non-continuation line starts with space
554 Nothing to %s
554 Port= option unsupported for family %d
554 Too many hops %d (%d max): from %s via %s, to %s
554 Too many parameters to %s before $u
554 Unknown address family %s in Family=option
554 Who are you?
554 alias line too long
554 alias too long
554 aliasing/forwarding loop broken
554 aliasing/forwarding loop broken (%d aliases deep; %d max)
554 aliasing/forwarding loop for %s broken
554 buildaddr: no host
554 buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address
554 buildaddr: no user
554 buildaddr: unknown mailer %s
554 callsubr: expansion too long
554 cannot fstat %s
554 cannot open %s: %s
554 cannot open: file %s changed after open
554 deliver: mci=%lx rcode=%d errno=%d state=%d sig=%s
554 deliver: pv overflow after $u for %s
554 file changed after open
554 forward: no home
554 host "%s" unknown
554 missing colon
554 non-clever IPC
554 returntosender: infinite recursion on %s
554 rewrite: expansion too long
554 rewrite: illegal ruleset number %d
554 rewrite: map %s not found
554 rewrite: ruleset %d: replacement $%c out of bounds
554 savemail: bogus errormode x%x
554 savemail: unknown state %d
554 service "%s" unknown
554 service "smtp" unknown
554 setevent: intvl=%ld
554 unknown mailer error %d

Just hope dat it's usefull to many.

[bertieg]

Nice post mate very informative

[Phil K]

I can never get .avi files to work in Outlook Express. Anyone else have the same prob ?

[N.B.]

HeHe !
Thanks mate ...

[VIPER_1069]

outlook express sucks phil use eudora or pegasus or other and get rid of microsucks lame pop 3 client full of holes easily exploited !

[Phil K]

May well do so Viper matey !