Question
Receive a lot of Mail with Subject: Delayed Mail (still being retried)
- Posted on August 25, 2014
Asked by agus.halim
Hi my test email receive a lot of mail delivery system. how can fix this? it’s looks like spam.
From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@<hide>>
Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:12 PM
Subject: Delayed Mail (still being retried)
To: test@<hide>
This is the mail system at host <hide>.
####################################################################
# THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. #
####################################################################
Your message could not be delivered for more than 4 hour(s).
It will be retried until it is 5 day(s) old.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<www.rajitpandey@yahoo.com>: delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection
with mta7.am0.yahoodns.net[98.138.112.35] while sending RCPT TO
Final-Recipient: rfc822; www.rajitpandey@yahoo.com
Original-Recipient: rfc822;www.rajitpandey@yahoo.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.2
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; delivery temporarily suspended: lost connection
with mta7.am0.yahoodns.net[98.138.112.35] while sending RCPT TO
Will-Retry-Until: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:24:04 -0400 (EDT)
Submit an answer
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Want to learn more? Join the DigitalOcean Community!
Join our DigitalOcean community of over a million developers for free! Get help and share knowledge in Q&A, subscribe to topics of interest, and get courses and tools that will help you grow as a developer and scale your project or business.
It maybe that your mta (mail service on linux) is being used as open-relay, you better check as that can cause you a lot of trouble.
check it here http://mxtoolbox.com/ and type this on the search box next to the orange button smtp:domain.com using your domain name. It will tell you if you have a open relay, in which case you need to fixed ASAP.