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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 9:02 PM

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Cause of 'Temporary Failure' message

I received this message when replying to an email I received from a known person, whose email I have x'd out.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.     

 

Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 49.4 hour(s):

 

  * [Edited: "Personal Information"]

 

Reason: Temporary Failure

The attached details file to the error email includes this;

Reporting-MTA: dns; resqmta-h1p-028588.sys.comcast.net [96.102.179.242]
Received-From-MTA: dns; resomta-h1p-027908.sys.comcast.net [96.102.179.197]
Arrival-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:12:32 +0000


Final-recipient: rfc822; [Edited: "Personal Information"]
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Connection error
Last-attempt-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:35:59 +0000

This message has been received several times, the last stating my email was aborted after 47.4 hours, but they continue.

Question 1: What causes this?

Question 2: How can it be cancelled?

Official Employee

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1.5K Messages

10 months ago

@46er Thanks for reaching out! Temporary Failures can be caused by a few different issues. 

*The destination server could be experiencing an interruption.

*There could be too much network traffic, or emails being sent to the domain, or to the particular email address. 

*Antispam or antivirus protection on the server may be blocking incoming mail. 

Once it leaves our server, delivery may continue until it fails permanently. 

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31K Messages

10 months ago

@4T6er 

Please do not create new identities for the forums as that is against our policies here.  If you can't remember your login you can always send a DM to the Administrator @XfinityJessie 

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