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[Ken4155]

Sent an email a few days back, unsure as to whether or not recipient address was correct. If not, I would have expected a prompt reply from Microsoft postmaster informing me of my mistake. Instead, I received the following this morning;

Your message wasn't delivered. In spite of repeated attempts, the recipients email system refused to accept a connection from your email system.

Contact the recipient by some other means (by phone, for example) and ask them to tell their email admin that it appears that their email system is refusing connections from your email server. Give them the error details shown below. It's likely that the recipient's email admin is the only one who can fix this problem.

For Email Admin; No connection could be made because the target computer actively refused it. This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the remote host. - that is one with no server application running.

Anyone explain what all this means in basic layman's terms. Any help would be much appreciated as it involves a dispute over quite a large sum of money owed to me. TIA.

[JimF]

qq first: are you sending from, or does the intended recipient have, a gmail / googlemail address?

[Ken4155]

Mine isn't but I don't know about the recipient. Would that show up in the email address, Jim. If so, then the answer is no.

[JimF]

OK, on the assumption that you did not misspell the recipient's email address, you now need to contact your email supplier's help facility and ask them to fix the issue. They will want to see the full text of the delivery failure message you received.

[albaqwerty]

The recipient might have firewalled their port to prevent them receiving any emails.
Contact your ISP for help.

Ken, do they have a website? Is it still active?
(I hate to say it, but I don't have a good feeling about this, sorry xx)

[Ken4155]

I will have to wait until I have contacted person who gave me the email address to check whether I have the correct spelling, Jim.
Alba - I have suspected for a couple of months that something about this whole affair stinks to high heaven. Without going into too much detail, the money is actually owed to my youngest daughter and without it she was left sort of stranded, financially. So Bank Of Dad came to the rescue and much of hat she is owed is in fact mine. This may well end up as a fraud investigation:-(

[albaqwerty]

oh heck, Ken. Wishing you and daughter good luck and I hope it's not as bad as you fear xx

[Peter Pedant]

erm doesnt sound good

well it has been blocked and it doesnt matter how
so you now have to contact the fella by some other means. and from bitter experience - this is intentional and there will be all this - "did it mate - dunno why it did that" etc. Take a letter of final demand with you so you can give it to him ( the letter that is!) when you find him.