Emails whoas

Hi All

Not sure if this is a software problem or internet problem, so apologies if I've posted in the wrong forum.

Lately when sending an email to someone, I sometimes get back a postmaster failure to deliver message, this has happened both in my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts and I'm at a loss as to why this is happening, I thought at first that it was settings on my own PC that was causing it, but it has also happened on another PC in a different country, can anyone shed any light on this, it seems to have something to do with an attached message, but I have not attached anything to my emails of late, also note this postmaster is different from the previous failure to deliver I received, the last one kept stating it was unable to send to recipient and that was some University email address, which I had never heard of and had certainly not tried to contact. Please see below postmasters reply which I have copied and pasted,

Delivery Status Notification (Failure)Wednesday, 3 September, 2008 11:46 AM
From: "postmaster@BalboaWater.com" <postmaster@BalboaWater.com>Add sender to Contacts To: (REMOVED MY EMAIL ADDRESS HERE) Message contains attachmentsMessage001.txt (216b), Message002.eml (4KB)This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

techsupport@balboa-instruments.com

 

Just been thinking about this, is there a virus that might do this, if so, maybe I've transferred it to my PC via a memory stick? and if thats the case, then I'll follow the forums advice for fixing an infection.

 

When the message bounces back, does it give you an SMTP code number? If so, what's the number?

 

Hi PEBKAC

I don't see any SMTP number, only attachments, ending in .Txt and .Eml and the funny thing about it is, I never attached anything to the emails, it was only a written email.

 

Hi Back again, this emailing problem as I stated before is not only when I send from Yahoo email, but also when I send from Hotmail, now I've tried sending from Lycos and the same has happened, it just bounced straight back to me, I've even had an email sent back to me when I emailed my neice, please see below the results of the last post failure sent immediately to my Lycos account, anyone got any idea why its doing this, note, I'm not a spammer.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
techsupport@balboa-instruments.com

Reporting-MTA: dns;BIXCH01.BI.LOCAL
Received-From-MTA: dns;server510.appriver.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:58:07 -0700
Final-Recipient: rfc822;techsupport@balboa-instruments.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1

Received: from server510.appriver.com ([72.32.253.10]) by BIXCH01.BI.LOCAL
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:58:07 -0700
Received: from [10.242.228.113] (HELO inbound.appriver.com)
by server510.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.1)
with ESMTP id 87249249 for techsupport@balboa-instruments.com; Sat, 06
Sep 2008 06:58:14 -0500
Received: by inbound.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 5.1.7)
with PIPE id 50801218; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:58:14 -0500
Received: from [213.193.24.114] (HELO eu1095f.lyceu.net)
by inbound.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7)
with ESMTP id 50801205 for techsupport@balboa-instruments.com; Sat, 06
Sep 2008 06:58:13 -0500
Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by lmout-10025.lyceu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A637D77C7B
for <techsupport@balboa-instruments.com>; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:58:04 +0200
(CEST)
Received: from eu1025m.lyceu.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by eu0138f.lyceu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0ADB2BC26
for <techsupport@balboa-instruments.com>; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:58:04 +0200
(CEST)
Received: from 172.18.200.118/32:58479
(from=;helo=eu1025m.lyceu.net)
by eXpurgate V2.0.6.1, id=150420::080906135804-23B6F080-75D6C840
for <techsupport@balboa-instruments.com>; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:58:04 +0200
Received: from eu1025 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by eu1025m.lyceu.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 230265A4EB
for <techsupport@balboa-instruments.com>; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:58:02 +0200
(CEST)
Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domain
keys
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk;
h=From:Subject;

b=iUa7fjhSu00IKDm5JcSl0WdstB4zwKK8mRpjCdbZyRI//+r8H0bEFk3QRmJZ1Y8gWfRSbPOKwn
TVu3CFeRTzZgL6gnIKc4F1TaFdleAexcoff/diHclNGbMh5iIbjkPTZJsIOtbU5Gm5tScohxwHLI
pbeXP093cKKi4Yg/kbjbY=;
From: "I removed my name from here"
To: techsupport@balboa-instruments.com
Message-ID: <122070227612097@lycos-europe.com>
X-Mailer: LycosMail
X-Priority: 3
X-Originating-IP: I removed my IP address from here
Mime-Version: 1.0
Subject: Balboa Pressure Switch
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:57:57 +0200
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="=_NextPart_Lycos_120971220702277_ID"
X-purgate: This mail is considered clean
X-purgate: clean
X-purgate-type: clean
X-purgate-Ad: Checked for Spam by eleven - eXpurgate www.eXpurgate.net
X-purgate-ID: 150420::080906135804-23B6F080-75D6C840/0-0/0-0
X-purgate-size: 1368/388
X-Lycos-AV: OK
X-Policy: techsupport@balboawater.com
X-Primary: techsupport@balboawater.com
X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide
X-Virus-Scan: V-
X-Note: FCH-SI:0/SG:0
X-GBUdb-Analysis: 0, 213.193.24.114, Ugly c=0 p=0 Source New
X-Signature-Violations:
0-0-0-4246-c
X-Note: Spam Tests Failed:
X-Country-Path: LOCAL->->LOCAL->LOCAL->GERMANY->UNITED STATES
X-Note-Sending-IP: 213.193.24.114
X-Note-Reverse-DNS: eu1095f.lyceu.net
X-Note-WHTLIST: I removed my email address from here
X-Note: User Rule Hits:
X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 84 85 86 87 91 92 160
X-Note: Mail Class: VALID
Return-Path: I removed my email address from here
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Sep 2008 11:58:07.0367 (UTC)
FILETIME=[D364F170:01C91017]

Regards

Pozzy

 

Are you sure you got the right e-mail?

Using web clients like yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc has very little to do with your client machine.

You can log onto those sites so it's not a firewall or a filter. Those services also use their own DNS and MTA's so it wouldn't be filtered at the ISP level either.

Does this happen with any other e-mail address? Does this e-mail user still exist? Does this e-mail user's MX allow web mail address to pass it's filter?

 

Hi Olestros

Thanks for the reply, yes I've emailed others, however when doing so, I was getting a postmaster undelivered email back, but each time it had some address of a university, which I had not sent an email to, so not sure whats happening, anyway, since then I've sent emails to this tech support at Balbao in the States and this time the postmaster undelivered email came back with the correct email address, cannot give you anymore information than that, this MX whatever it is, I'm sorry, do not know what it means, nor have seen anything like it in the returned emails.

Regards

Pozzy

 

Hmm... wish i could say something positive Pozzy but it looks like you're being filtered somewhere down the line.

Can you make *any* outgoing e-mails using webmail clients like yahoo, hotmail, gmail?

Do you have an internal e-mail server that is not a free mail server? ( I.e. corporate e-mail server, University e-mail, etc.?)

The reason I say this is because you're getting a lot of bounce back. Your mail headers from the lycos account seem to be in order as well. Didn't see any glaring problems there.

Post some more e-mail headers so I can see if there's a trend.

 

Olestros

Thanks once again for getting back to me, I only use either Yahoo, Hotmail or Lycos the latter mainly as a buffer for spam, I'm only using a PC at home, the only access to a server is when I'm at work and I work overseas from my home address, however still at home for now, one other thing I've not sent many emails lately and the ones I have sent have not been returned, so hopefully everything is Ok now, I think I will try sending to Balboa one more time just to see what happens, anyway a big thanks from me for your time and effort, it really is appreciated as is my appreciation to Major Geeks for use of this forum.

Regards

Pozzy