Help!!!!!Computer genius needed.

[Nicholas123]

I just sent off an email to a bloke I am trying to buy a boat off & I got the following reply "Mailer-Daemon@p3plsmtpio-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net"

Your mail message to the following address(es) could not be delivered. This
is a permanent error. Please verify the addresses and try again. If you are
still having difficulty sending mail to these addresses, please contact
Customer Support at 480-624-2500.

XXXXXXXXXXX: (I have removed his email address for safety)
child status 100...The e-mail message could not be delivered because the user's mailfolder is full.


Never heard of anything like this before,is it normal?

 

[fergie_mac66]

some email adress have limits and spam fils them up if not deleted . Does happen

 

[Steve Clayton]

If he has a phone number give him a call/text saying his mailbox is full.

Your email host is likely to keep trying to deliver(say every 6 hours) and mail you if it fails again; can go on for about 3 days.

 

[nimbusgb]

Normal. ... yes when an inbox on a website is never emptied.

It sounds like there is an email masking service in place and it's not being cleared.

 

[Nicholas123]

Thanks gents,a bit concerned that it refers to him as a child.I could be being conned!

 

[NickRobinson]

I got that (or similar) msg and it meant the recipient IP thought I was the spammer.

Happened after my daughter emailed me while she had a virus/bot/trojan.

Not all recipients refused to accept, just some

I put AVG free back on, not happened since.

Do you have an alternative email address you could send yourself a test msg from?

N

just reread OP orig msg- missed that it referred to full mail box.....

 

[prv]

Thanks gents,a bit concerned that it refers to him as a child.I could be being conned!

Heh. Somewhere there's a cartoon of an elderly couple nervously looking out the window for the Police, with a window on their PC screen saying "Illegal operation". This is much the same - just a bit of computer-science jargon that doesn't mean what you think it means.

The error message isn't as clear as it should be, but most of the Mail Transport Agents in use out there are quite old, and weren't written with novice users in mind. One of them under some circumstances used to send you a message saying that the recipient is "Not a typewriter"

Pete

 

[ostell]

As others have said the recipients mail box is full. One of the Microsoft email programs (Windows Mail? I can't remember) had a bug for a while in that it did not delete the messages on the server after downloading causing the mail server to fill up.

Child == child process ie a program started by another program.

 

[PCUK]

Also happens when email address is wrong.

 

[Playtime]

Was the email address you used absolutely correct, particularly the first part (before the @).

If there was an error in the first part, the receiver's server could route the message to a default mailbox that is never emptied - hence the overflow message.