Strange Email failure error

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Gordon Burgess-Parker

Can anyone help? Using Outlook 2002 and POP3 mail. I've always been able to
send emails to my wife's work email address until this week, when I get this
very strange failure notice.

"Connected to 213.2.49.230 but greeting failed.

Remote host said: 421 reppsrv01.repp.co.uk is not accepting new connections.
Please try later I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the
queue too long."



Does anyone know what the hell this means?



thanks
 
Roady said:
213.2.49.230 has no reverse DNS entry; some mail servers may not
accept your mail
Click to expand...

That's interesting - this has only just started in the last week and I've
been using the same ISP and email address for months!
How do I fix it?
 
I don't think you can. The one owning the domain with IP 213.2.49.230 (I
obviously couldn't resolve it) should contact his/her ISP to make sure all
the entries are correct. Then of course you'll need to wait a couple of days
before the recoreds are synchronised throughout the world.

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I got the reverse entry of gw.repp.co.uk, so that should
be ok. 421 is the generic error code any time an SMTP
server is going to shut down due to whatever condition:
internal error, bad connection, invalid sending domain,
etc. It may be that the SMTP server you're trying to use
is having a problem or is the victim of a denial of
service attack. I just connected to your server using
telnet, so perhaps it's back up now.
 
not accepting new connections

probably means it's swamped with swen or is otherwise overloaded. Try again
at a later time. If it continues, contact the provider.

I see this error often with myrealbox accounts - it's especially bad
throughout the US working hours and improves overnight.

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