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Email status messages – what do they mean

Posted by plattapuss on December 16th, 2008

With one of my clients I need to monitor email bounces from our mailing lists. Normally this goes relatively smoothly, as either the email goes through, or it bounces back with a 550 Recipient not found message. Sometimes the messages I get back are less familiar to me. Here is the appendix from RFC1893. Hopefully this will be a useful guide:

2.X.X Success
Success specifies that the DSN is reporting a positive delivery action. Detail sub-codes may provide notification of transformations required for delivery.
4.X.X Persistent Transient Failure
A persistent transient failure is one in which the message as sent is valid, but some temporary event prevents the successful sending of the message. Sending in the future may be successful.
5.X.X Permanent Failure
A permanent failure is one which is not likely to be resolved by resending the message in the current form. Some change to the message or the destination must be made for successful delivery.
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  1. X.1.0     Other address status
  2. X.1.1     Bad destination mailbox address
  3. X.1.2     Bad destination system address
  4. X.1.3     Bad destination mailbox address syntax
  5. X.1.4     Destination mailbox address ambiguous
  6. X.1.5     Destination mailbox address valid
  7. X.1.6     Mailbox has moved
  8. X.1.7     Bad sender's mailbox address syntax
  9. X.1.8     Bad sender's system address
  10.  
  11. X.2.0     Other or undefined mailbox status
  12. X.2.1     Mailbox disabled, not accepting messages
  13. X.2.2     Mailbox full
  14. X.2.3     Message length exceeds administrative limit.
  15. X.2.4     Mailing list expansion problem
  16.  
  17. X.3.0     Other or undefined mail system status
  18. X.3.1     Mail system full
  19. X.3.2     System not accepting network messages
  20. X.3.3     System not capable of selected features
  21. X.3.4     Message too big for system
  22.  
  23. X.4.0     Other or undefined network or routing status
  24. X.4.1     No answer from host
  25. X.4.2     Bad connection
  26. X.4.3     Routing server failure
  27. X.4.4     Unable to route
  28. X.4.5     Network congestion
  29. X.4.6     Routing loop detected
  30. X.4.7     Delivery time expired
  31.  
  32. X.5.0     Other or undefined protocol status
  33. X.5.1     Invalid command
  34. X.5.2     Syntax error
  35. X.5.3     Too many recipients
  36. X.5.4     Invalid command arguments
  37. X.5.5     Wrong protocol version
  38.  
  39. X.6.0     Other or undefined media error
  40. X.6.1     Media not supported
  41. X.6.2     Conversion required and prohibited
  42. X.6.3     Conversion required but not supported
  43. X.6.4     Conversion with loss performed
  44. X.6.5     Conversion failed
  45. X.7.0     Other or undefined security status
  46. X.7.1     Delivery not authorized, message refused
  47. X.7.2     Mailing list expansion prohibited
  48. X.7.3     Security conversion required but not possible
  49. X.7.4     Security features not supported
  50. X.7.5     Cryptographic failure
  51. X.7.6     Cryptographic algorithm not supported
  52. X.7.7     Message integrity failure



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