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Old August 26th 06, 05:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
brett
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In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and I
received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?
Thanks
Brett


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Old August 26th 06, 07:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Jim Pickering
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If you attempt to telnet to hdcity.freeserve.co.uk" you will also get an
error message. You are going to have to use some other means of ensuring
that the address is correct. I suspect you've either typed it wrong or it
was sent to you in error.
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"brett" wrote in message
...
In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and I
received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?
Thanks
Brett



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Old August 26th 06, 09:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Michael Santovec
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Try dropping the "hdcity." and instead use


That's a common addressing error made by some users. Some ISPs have
multiple internal mail servers and each customer is assigned to use one
of them for retrieving mail. But that internal server name is not used
when sending mail to them.

--

Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"brett" wrote in message
...
In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and
I received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?
Thanks
Brett




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Old August 26th 06, 09:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
N. Miller
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:44:06 +0100, brett wrote:

In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and I
received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?


Are you sure that you have the domain correct? Sam Spade tells me:

| 08/26/06 12:42:53 dns hdcity.freeserve.co.uk
| No DNS for this address
| (host doesn't exist)

No DNS records at all; no 'A' record, no 'MX' record, no way for an SMTP
relay client to find out where the email should go.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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Old August 26th 06, 10:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Kath Adams
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brett wrote:
In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and
I received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?
Thanks
Brett


As a customer of (formerly) Freeserve (co.uk), personal email addresses
originally took the form of or
where xxx could be anything you wanted and yyy was the actual
"username". Therefore you can use anything before the @ and have
multiple email addresses for the whole family.
I may be wrong, but I don't think freeserve.co.uk was ever used for
customer email, only email directly to the ISP.
Domain names/Webspace via Freeserve originally took the form of
http://www.username.fsnet.co.uk/ or http://www.username.fsmail.co.uk/

As hdcity.freeserve.co.uk appears not to exist, and Age Concern
themselves appear to use then you really need to check
you have any part of the email address correct.

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)


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Old August 28th 06, 12:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
brett
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Thanks all replies.

The email address was on their notepaper as


so I shall have to check with them tomorrow.

Useful email checker at
www.mailtester.com came from freeserve support.
Regards
Brett

"Kath Adams" wrote in message
...
brett wrote:
In OE 6 I sent an email to a bonafide address but it was rejected and
I received the following:
was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host 'DNS Hard Error looking up
hdcity.freeserve.co.uk (MX): NXDomain'

Any ideas please?
Thanks
Brett


As a customer of (formerly) Freeserve (co.uk), personal email addresses
originally took the form of or
where xxx could be anything you wanted and yyy was the actual "username".
Therefore you can use anything before the @ and have multiple email
addresses for the whole family.
I may be wrong, but I don't think freeserve.co.uk was ever used for
customer email, only email directly to the ISP.
Domain names/Webspace via Freeserve originally took the form of
http://www.username.fsnet.co.uk/ or http://www.username.fsmail.co.uk/

As hdcity.freeserve.co.uk appears not to exist, and Age Concern themselves
appear to use then you really need to check you have any
part of the email address correct.

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)




 




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