Friends can't send me email - intermittent

[FloridaMike]

I have been having intermittent  complaints from people who email me who say their messages are not getting through.  This has been happening for several months now.  I have actual examples that I can share (including messages to myself) of messages folks are getting when they try to email me OR my wife.  The response they get is either:

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.  Mail server for "verizon.net" unreachable for too long.    (from MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com)

Or:

Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day to the following recipients:  ME   (*** Test message to myself from VERIZON ***)

On 11/18/2011 I contacted support and was told to change my incoming & outgoing port numbers – which I did.  This is still happening (as I expected) since my retrieval has no effect on the delivery of a message to the server.

Please check into this and advise me as to what will eliminate this problem. 

Thank you,

MikeG

Ps - This is my second attemopt to POST this message.  The first time I made the mistake of hitting Spell Check and the entire app blew up - I lost everything I had typed into the box - what a {word filter avoidance}!!!

[TonyaD_VZ]

Verizon support is in receipt of this issue. We will send you a PM to gather additional information.


Thanks,

Tonya D.

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[mrb1090]

I am having the same problem with my family's email accounts.  Mail from certain domains are not getting through.  What has changed to Verizon's SPAM filters over the past 2 weeks?  For example, it appears to be blocking/filtering the umass.edu domain????

Regards,

Mike Brown

[FloridaMike]

I've even had problems sending test messages from one of my Verizon accounts to another! 

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:

  Message-id: <025e01ccbde6$fbae8cb0$f30ba610$@Verizon.net>

  Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:41:44 -0500

  From: "xxx" <XXX@Verizon.net>

  To: <XXX@verzon.net>

  Subject: TEST

Your message is being returned; it has been enqueued and undeliverable for

4 days to the following recipients:

  Recipient address: xxx@verzon.net

  Reason: unable to deliver this message after 4 days

Delivery attempt history for your mail:

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:44:30 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:44:17 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:44:01 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:43:54 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:43:41 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:43:37 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:43:24 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:43:17 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:43:13 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:43:09 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:43:07 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:43:00 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:42:53 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:42:51 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:42:45 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:42:38 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:42:29 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later

I had this for 3 messages sent on the 18th...

If it wasn't for the FiOS technology I'b be back with Brighthouse in a heartbeat - I never had problems like this with them!

[somegirl]

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@FloridaMike wrote:

I've even had problems sending test messages from one of my Verizon accounts to another! 

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:

  Message-id: <025e01ccbde6$fbae8cb0$f30ba610$@Verizon.net>

  Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:41:44 -0500

  From: "xxx" <XXX@Verizon.net>

  To: <XXX@verzon.net>

  Subject: TEST

Your message is being returned; it has been enqueued and undeliverable for

4 days to the following recipients:

  Recipient address: xxx@verzon.net

  Reason: unable to deliver this message after 4 days

Delivery attempt history for your mail:

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:44:30 -0600 (CST)

Failed MX lookup; try again later...

...I had this for 3 messages sent on the 18th...

If it wasn't for the FiOS technology I'b be back with Brighthouse in a heartbeat - I never had problems like this with them!

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Were all of the messages identical to that one? the To address is incorrect in that message, and would probably never successfully send.

The Yahoo/Verizon issue happens when Yahoo blocks Verizon's servers or vice-versa, and is usually cleared up within a day or two.