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Old 01-21-2011, 08:50 AM   #17
doofus
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Myrna,

No, the error is generated by mail.com (hotmail) before it ever gets distributed to my mailbox. And I never got a notification; Ozz (the sender) got the e-mail with the error message. This happens all the time, actually. AOL and G-mail are especially quick to block out an IP address or groups of IP addresses because someone either spams or overloads the system. And even when you get a contact e-mail to try and get it fixed, it's a lot of effort and it takes forever.

This particular kind of error reporting fails a lot of the time. Because of spammers who use "MAILER DAEMON FAILURE" or "MAIL DELIVERY ERROR" in their subject lines, those e-mails are frequently blocked by spam filters (I've blocked mail like that lots of times). So I was fortunate in this case that Ozz even read the e-mail, so I know the source of the problem is one of ForumCo's servers.
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