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email delays: THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Zone: Email Servers

Tags: linux, email, email delays

I have a client that is getting back many emails everyday to people that says the below warning message. I know what the message means, but these email warning messages don't always explain how to get things back to normal so the client doesn't freak out. This is where i need help:

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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

user@yahoo.com

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Zone: Software

Question Asked By: allwebnow

Solution Provided By: moorhouselondon

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: A

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Comment by allwebnow

Another quick update on this. I found out that these original "emals" that were generating these error messages back to my client were originally created by another server and sent to my client's clients. So, everytime their clients did something in their backend account area this other server would email them using omegaps email address to make it appear as though it was from them. But there was something messed up with this other server's sendmail function because it was sending these people emails with nasty messed up headers with broken content. Obviously some of these people's email services thought it was forged emails and sent back the error message to my client. It would have been nice to know from the get go that they were using another machine to automatically send out these emails. Oh well. I think the case is closed for good now.

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