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Comment on What Those SMTP Error Codes Mean and Why You Should Care by Rob Verhagen

Rob Verhagen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:43:55 +0000

Hi Reuben

To answer your question, you will need to tell us the specific 550 error, usually it will tell you what has happened. Also check whether your mail servers are not appearing on any spam blacklists.

Comment on AmericaRX’s Dirty Little Spamming Problem by Heidi

Heidi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:03:38 +0000

I agree with the above mentioned msg. There is fraudulent activity happening, I have not received my order & its been over 2 weeks. Something was shipped because there is a valid tracking # but at the same time it seems the package is lost and AmericaRX says there is nothing they can do. The package apparently was processed at a postal facility in my city on February 12th & now February 23rd & I still don’t have it. I was in the shipping business for 3 years & know when a package is lost the only way to find it is if the sender (AmericaRX) opens an investigation with the shipper (USPS). So there is nothing they can do right? I tried calling the 3 toll free numbers provided & all 3 are out of service. I finally found 3 other numbers which also indicate are toll free but I know they are not & after being on hold for over 5 mins, I spoke with an agent who was uninformative, refusing to speak with USPS. Ive sent emails & not one response yet. My last resort was to try live chat where again I got the runaround. I will be contacting the bank & credit card company as well as filing suit with the Better Business Bureau!

Comment on What Those SMTP Error Codes Mean and Why You Should Care by Reuben Greaves

Reuben Greaves — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:25:30 +0000

Hi there,
we have an unusual 550 problem, when we send out mail via our web site to a specific email address we get a 550 mail bounced straight back to us, however if we use the same email address vai outlook (using the same smtp server to send it) then the messages get through without a problem? Any suggestions??

The bounce we get is (with actual email address an IP’s removed):
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Sent: 19 Jan 2010 20:07:38 +0000
Subject: Password Reset

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

xxxx.xxxx@EcoSkies.com
Error Type: SMTP
Remote server (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) issued an error.
hMailServer sent: .
Remote server replied: 550 xxxx.xxxx@EcoSkies.com)

Comment on An Example of Pure Spam - TripIt.com by Jody Raines

Jody Raines — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:10:12 +0000

Whether it’s a great program or not, I just got a spam from some David guy that I don’t know. I’ll never know whether the service is any good because I immediately deleted this.

What the heck. Doesn’t the marketing department at Tripit have a clue?

For anyone who understands the audience, the tone of the email screams that this is totally junk. If it’s a bona-fide application, then use bona-fide techniques to market it. Not this nonsense.

By the way, I got the first spam today, which is about 2 years from the first post on this page.

Comment on What Those SMTP Error Codes Mean and Why You Should Care by Mihai Secasiu

Mihai Secasiu — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:40:01 +0000

What about the 450 message? From what I know 4xx messages indicate a temporary failure, but isn’t a “full mailbox” also a temporary failure? A lot of MTA’s will immediately generate a bounce message for 550 but most will keep trying to deliver a message that fails with 450 for about a week ( or whatever the “queue life time” is for a certain server). If this considered harmful by the ISPs?
Should we remove these email addresses ( that fail with a 450 error after trying for a week ) immediately from the list ( like we do with 550 codes ) or should we maybe send another mailing ?

Some free email providers will deactivate an account if is inactive for X days. ( I think yahoo used to do this or still does ) . In this they would send a 450 message not a 550 message as the user can still reactivate his account by simply logging in.

Comment on AmericaRX’s Dirty Little Spamming Problem by Sid L

Sid L — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:05:10 +0000

AMERICARx SUX!!!

I never received my order. I still have not received a refund even though they said I would THREE DIFFERENT times. I have to contact the better business bureau, my bank and next the courts. This company is horrible!!!

They do not care about their customers.

They do not have a support line, just a sales line.

They do not reply promptly to inquiries or issues.

They will not save you money.

They are rude and mean.

They are mostly in India with a shipping depot here in the US.

AMERICARx SUX!!!

Comment on An Example of Pure Spam - TripIt.com by Stuart S.

Stuart S. — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:43:07 +0000

I use tripit regularly. It is the greatest and a wonderful free service. Sure there are adds but I found the prices from Hertz better than any I otherwise qualified for.

Bag

Comment on AmericaRX’s Dirty Little Spamming Problem by Srini Mali

Srini Mali — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:57:13 +0000

Hello,
Greetings from Americarx.com Am glad you did this review. After finding this we rectified the technical gap you mentioned. I appreciate you can re-check every step of the process you mentioned and update the article.

Also we are noticing your good review about the pricing. This will greatly help our website to remove the Bad Opinion [because of technical glitch] from this article.

I am personally saying sorry for the inconvenience caused by this entire spam issue. We fixed it now.

Thanks
Srivasu. M
Webmaster
AmericaRx.com - Health & Personal Care Shopping site

Comment on An Example of Pure Spam - TripIt.com by Robbert van den Bogerd

Robbert van den Bogerd — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:57 +0000

Terrible, receiving spam on my personal AND my business email addresses. Does anybody know how they do it? The only way I could think of is that they got my personal via facebook and my business via linkedin. This means that the person who ’sent’ this to me, would have entered both his facebook and linkedin account password, how stupid!

When do we finally get rid of this blind trust from people who just publish their personal details all over the web? As long as those people exist, bad guys like tripit.com will make advantage of it..

Comment on Why You Should Never Send Mass Mailings Through a Brand New IP Address by xl666

xl666 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:54:41 +0000

Interesting, but this only aplies if you send a mass email based on a emali list?,I wonder because I have an aplicaion that sends mass email but it sends it one by one and I don’t know if I’ll have the same problem in this case.