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smtp error - bad syntax

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Michael Hart

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Feb 5, 2004, 1:01:58 PM2/5/04
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anyone know of the root cause to this error?

"There has been an error transferinhg your mail. I said QUIT and the SMTP
server (smtp.xxxxxxx.com) said: 500 Error: bad syntax"

I have tried without the antivirus on and it still appears. It is not
consistant though, sometimes mail sends fine sometimes the error.

At first I thought it was the antivirus but that doesn't check. then I
thought it was only on messages that had been copied from clipboard... that
proved wrong.

email program is Eudora 6.0.1.1 (paid mode)


Andrew Barrett

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Feb 5, 2004, 3:35:41 PM2/5/04
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In article <10255e3...@corp.supernews.com>, micha...@msn.com
says...

> "There has been an error transferinhg your mail. I said QUIT and the SMTP
> server (smtp.xxxxxxx.com) said: 500 Error: bad syntax"

Maybe the server doesn't want to accept grammatically incorrect e-mail?

Just kidding. It looks like the server doesn't like one of the e-mail
addresses to which you are trying to send. Check each and be sure they
are in correct syntax: us...@domain.tld.

Michael Hart

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Feb 5, 2004, 4:35:12 PM2/5/04
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that was one of my thoughts.... not it...
am focusing on antivirus software now... seems the problem is not there when
I disable the AV?

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