I have this problem when I send an e-mail to this one particular e-mail address.

As soon as I send it, and then hit send/receive again, it comes right back with this message:

"THE FOLLOWING ADDRESSES HAD FATAL ERRORS:
(persons email address):550 PERMIT DENIED."

This also happens to one other e-mail address, with the exception that I don't even get the Fatal Error Message. (recipient doesn't receive my emails)

Their e-mail addresses are good, because when I send them e-mails using my other e-mail clients (yahoo & Gmail), they receive them.

This is Comcast email.

Comcast tech support is a joke.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

The Comcast block of addresses is blacklisted at many ISP's. Anything comming from Comcast is automatically denied. Comcast has one of the highest records of spam mail and is the reason for the blacklisting.

I have Comcast and have the same problem with a few people I send mail to.

 

I agree with the post above.

Your friend(s) may be using email client software such as Thunderbird, MS Outlook, etc. which have some of the more sophisticated filtering sytems. Have them take a look at this (you'll have to call them tho ) . It may be nothing more than some setting changes on their end, kinda like the buddy/ignore settings in the Private Messaging here at FTE.

 

Often that message is triggered because you had a virus/mass mailing event on your machine, and you have been logged for spam abuse. If you read the entire "fatal error" message, there's usually a link to the email server's sys admin to use if you recieved the message in error. If you use it, and mention you believe you recieved this in error, they'll remove your ISP from their blocked list.

 

Are you trying to send to someone with @hotmail or @MSN email addresses?

If so, that is a Comcast\Microsoft issue that they are aware of and working on (for some reason the two cannot send to eachother right now). Neither side will take blame for the issue, so no idea on an ETA.

Might want to keep sending with gmail to those accounts.

Good luck to ya

 

Or, drop comcast and start using Yahoo! e-mail. It's free (with up to 1gig of storage), and they actually respond to questions and problems. Their spell-checker suddenly went on the fritz, and when I asked about it, they replied they were aware of it and resolving the problem. Not only did they fix it, they actually replaced it with a better system! I use it a lot because it's web-based, so I can easily access it from work or home.

 

Does anyone know if the same is true of "NETZERO" addresses?

Nevermind - I read the fine print....

"DELIVERY FAILED DUE TO MAIL QUOTA EXCEEDED"

*ROFFL*

His damn mailbox was full! Like that will ever happen to me using GMAIL!!!!

 

I had comcast myself and use the email service from my web hosting solution. Much better service than any ISP, and greater control of what I want to do (make as many email addresses as I want, with my own names).

The only reason I would not use yahell or any of the other free ones is the sheer amount of trash that they receive.

 

I dump it all once every three months.

It doesn't matter...

 

How ironic.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/...rosoft_comcast