I gotta problem!

[Luckydog]

My best mate in France emails me. I reply. IT BOUNCES BACK!
Why is that for F's sake?

[Norton]

My best mate in France emails me. I reply. IT BOUNCES BACK!

Is this a recent thing?

[lom]

Why is that for F's sake?

The server bouncing back the email has added a few text lines
explaining the reason. Read them!

[Luckydog]

Why is that for F's sake?

The server bouncing back the email has added a few text lines
explaining the reason. Read them!

I have but it's not clear what the problem is and it has been going on for months now. But only to two of my contacts.....

[lom]

I have but it's not clear what the problem is and it has been going on for months now.

Well, then I doubt anyone here can help you if you're only looking for a guess as an
answer.
Those messages do clearly tell where the problem lies.

[friscofrankie]

Well, then I doubt anyone here can help you if you're only looking for a guess as an answer.

The B.O.F.H. in all of us comes out eventually!

[Spin]

But only to two of my contacts..

What kind of e-mail account are you using?

Is it a hotmail account?

If its an e-mail address supplied by you thai ISP the the folowing might apply....

Its quite possible that those two contacts use an ISP who have black listed your ISPs mail server as one that originates spam and are bouncing everything back.
This is quite common for thai ip addresses.

Have you tried to -email from a gmail or hotmail account?

[DaffyDuck]

My best mate in France emails me. I reply. IT BOUNCES BACK!
Why is that for F's sake?

As another poster pointed out - the BOUNCE messages usually contain VERY DETAILED explanations behind the reasons of the bounce -- yet, of course, most people don't bother reading them, and expect people to magically know why your mail is bouncing.

Maybe if you copied the bounce messages into the thread asking for assistance, people might be more likely able to help you.

[lom]

Maybe if you copied the bounce messages into the thread asking for assistance, people might be more likely able to help you.

Oh no, you did it, you spoon fed him.

I was actually waiting to see how long time it would take him to realise that he had to provide some beef to chew on but I guess my hints were too subtle.

[DaffyDuck]

Oh no, you did it, you spoon fed him.

LOL

was actually waiting to see how long time it would take him to realise that he had to provide some beef to chew on but I guess my hints were too subtle.

I deal with plenty of friends' retired (or retarded) family and parents to know by now that no plethora of hints will ever find the target -- heck, even with the obvious incentive to provide more information, there's only a 10% likelihood we'd actually see something useful pasted here...

[lom]

The B.O.F.H. in all of us comes out eventually!

I am sitting in for him over christmas.
Made me re-read the old archives while waiting for a lusers input..

Here is another oldie and goldie:
The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer

[Fuzzy Bob]

Is he with AOL? If they think anything is spam it'll be bounced.

[Luckydog]

Both the peeps I am trying to email are on Hotmail as indeed am I. I used to be able to get through but not now. I did try to understand the reason given for bouncing back but it was gobbledygook to me.... I cant post it as I deleted same in disgust. If it happenes again I will do so though to see if some of you clever gits can make sense of it. I also have tried to get through using Gmail and Yahoo. Yahoo sent a failure notification back but Gmail did not. Even though it did not seem to have been delivered. If it HAD my friend would have replied surely.
What puzzles me is why there is a problem when I click on REPLY to sender?

[kingwilly]

I did try to understand the reason given for bouncing back but it was gobbledygook to me.... I cant post it as I deleted same in disgust.

[DaffyDuck]

I cant post it as I deleted same in disgust.

(shakes head)

Yahoo sent a failure notification back

Which I guess you deleted as well..?

What puzzles me is why there is a problem when I click on REPLY to sender?

Have you bothered scrutinizing the actual REPLY address? Since most mail programs require the REPLY-TO field to be a separately mapped one, maybe your friend entered a typo in his email address when configuring his email program -- and everytime when you hit REPLY it is sending it to an address that doesn't exist.

Of course, the bounce messages would have been clear in stating so.

That's about all we can try to guess at without actually seeing any of the gobbledeegook... How about sending an email to your friend from all of your addresses RIGHT NOW, and then copying and pasting the resultant error message (which you should have within seconds) right here?

[friscofrankie]

"Good morning, Tech Support, how can I help you?"
"My computer has an error."
...
"What is the error, sir?"

"I uh, deleted it"
"Without the text of the error message I can't really help you. Sir"
Click.

Walks off to the coffee machine, meets PFY, tell him about his most recent call.

"did you ask him try the same thing over? To replicate the error?"

"Nah, too fuckin easy. Figure it'll take him a week to work that out, let's go have a beer ot three."
...

[Luckydog]

OoooooKkkkkkkay gents. The error is saying "Postbox not available". Well, how can that be when I have simply replied to it?
I have just tried a test email by Gmail and it hasn't come back.....YET!

[Spin]

techie:Good morning tech support how can i help you?

user: i got this problem with my monitor, all the icons seem bigger than usual

techie: ok i want you to right click on the desktop area and choose properties from the menu that pops up.

user: ok did that, but dont see any pop up menu

techie: ok start again, right click on the desktop area

user: ok done that but the same thing happened again.

techie: can you describe to me what you see on the screen please

user, i can see where i wrote "click" twice on the screen

techie: cock!

[TizMe]