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Subject: mail
Category: Computers > Operating Systems
Asked by: diamond2690-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 20 Mar 2003 10:48 PST
Expires: 19 Apr 2003 11:48 PDT
Question ID: 178756
What does 65.54.254.151does no like receipent remote host says: 550
requested action not taken:mailbox unavailable.

Does this mean account not active.Also what is the  web page to see is
a business account is working.<verifye-mail.com.> I have asked some
that i know are closed and the site says they are active, do they
update?
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Subject: Re: mail
Answered By: missy-ga on 20 Mar 2003 11:45 PST
 
Hello Diamond,

The message you've received is telling you that Hotmail cannot access
the account you're trying to send mail to (65.54.254.151 is registered
to Hotmail)- it's been told there is an error and cannot deliver the
mail.

According to SMTP Reply Codes, an error of 550 typically indicates
"User
Unknown" (no account by that name), an inactive account or an account
which has been abandoned, with no forwarding address.
 
SMTP Reply Codes 
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/05/21/smtp-replies.html 
 
 
"Diagnostic-Code: smtp ; 550-mailbox unavailable 
     550 user has moved with no forwarding address" 
 
Appendix - Type-Name Definitions - 9.1. rfc822 address-type 
http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC1891/Output/chapter9.html 

Whether or not an e-mail verification service will help you is largely
dependent upon the configuration of the e-mail server.  While many
e-mail servers will return an error message, others will not:

"Most Mail Servers are configured to reject messages addressed to
non-existing accounts. However, some servers will simply ignore such
messages and return no errors. That's why sometimes you may get a
'Valid Account' response to a clearly invalid e-mail address."

SearchBug People Finder - Verify E-mail
http://www.searchbug.com/peoplefinder/verifyemail.aspx

E-mail verification services do not need to update, as they work in
real time.  They query the server and wait for a response.  If the
server is not configured to return an error code, they will return an
"active" account verification, even if the account is not active.

--Missy

Search terms: [ "550 error" ], [ "verify email" ]
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