Haxe I asked this question, i get no response that make sense

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Request for Question Clarification by hammer-ga on 07 Feb 2003 11:12 PST

What is your question?

- Hammer

Hi there,

Although we have hundreds of researchers, only the researcher who
answered your other question can respond to your request for
clarification. Many researchers live in different time-zones to the
USA - for me it has just ticked past 7 o'clock in the morning. I am
sure she will respond to your clarification as soon as she is
available.

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=155424

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However, I found your question interesting, so here's a second
opinion:

I sent a polite test email and it has not returned. I checked the
address using an email verification service (
http://www.verifyemail.com/verify.php ) and it comes up as valid.

As a long-time Hotmail user, I agree that there are no paths offered
for closing an account - they just expire if you stop using them.

If the mailbox was full, the error code should be 552 - however this
expert comments that:

"even lost important messages -- some MSPs (Hotmail, IIRC, is one)
reject mail to over-quota boxes with /permanent/ rather than temporary
SMTP error codes, for reasons never explained."
http://www.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-discuss/2002-April/002868.html

So that is a possibility - the mailbox regularly gets too full, and
Hotmail returns an incorrect error code. This is also the only reason
I can think of for an email address to accept mail sometimes, but not
other times.

However, I am not an expert on the topic - I was just letting you know
why you have not had a response to your clarification request at your
original question.



Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by diamond2690-ga on 23 Feb 2003 00:21 PST

thanks for your help, recently re the account   achievevictory@msn.com
    I receive notification from Yahoo, my e-mail guy and it says, mail
has been in que too long  can't deliver. what does that mean. Can
Robertskelton-ga answer

diamond2690-ga

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Clarification of Answer by robertskelton-ga on 24 Feb 2003 15:45 PST

Hi again,

When an email doesn't get through, sometimes the email service will
keep trying a few more times, in case the initial problem was just a
temporary glitch. This varies from service to service.

QUEUE— If the SMTP service can't deliver a message immediately because
of a network problem or other connectivity problem, the message queues
in the Queue directory. The SMTP service holds the message for a
configurable length of time, then tries to retransmit it a
configurable number of times.
http://www.windowswebsolutions.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15946

What was your question? can you make state it again. I will be able to
give you an answer..