Non-delivery message
Michael Bell
It seems to me that the first part says that I have been given a wrong
address for the the Belgian embassy. (It was a second-hand source,
though I thought it authoratitive).
It seems to me that the second half is saying that my mailer does not
support MIME. But it does! It is Messenger Pro, version 4.08.
What are these faults and what action should I take to get my message
through?
Michael Bell
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Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 11:50:21 +0100
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charles
> It seems to me that the first part says that I have been given a wrong
> address for the the Belgian embassy. (It was a second-hand source,
> though I thought it authoratitive).
A quick google shows the website for the embassy: www.diplomatie.be/london
> It seems to me that the second half is saying that my mailer does not
> support MIME. But it does! It is Messenger Pro, version 4.08.
> What are these faults and what action should I take to get my message
> through?
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Paul
> What are these faults and what action should I take to get my message
> through?
The correct email address and that's about it - the MIME bit is usually
not worth worrying about. If you've sent plain text, it'll get through -
it's probably something at their end which is screwy on that one.
TTFN
Paul
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Dr Who
Mike Sandells
[snip]
> It seems to me that the second half is saying that my mailer does not
> support MIME. But it does! It is Messenger Pro, version 4.08.
It's showing you the initial text of the message, raw.
Messenger Pro is indeed MIME capable, and has indeed sent a MIME message
(as indicated by the MIME-Version header and all the boundary= stuff),
including a portion that would only be displayed if the recipient did
not have a MIME capable client. If the recipient has a client that
supports MIME, they would never see that text unless they looked at the
raw message. Most, if not all, MIME capable clients do something along
those lines.
Mike
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Russell Hafter News
> It seems to me that the first part says that I have been
> given a wrong address for the the Belgian embassy.
You have.
> (It was a second-hand source, though I thought it
> authoratitive).
[Snip]
Not the right address.
www.belgium-embassy.co.uk takes you to a domain parking
firm.
The London Embassy's website is www.diplobel.org.uk which
sounds and looks a lot more authoritative.
The e-mail address is lon...@diplobel.be
Nothing to do with your software.
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Holiday specialists for Germany, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic
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Paul Shayler
News <see...@walkingingermany.invalid> writes
>In article
><4c78b6214e....@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
> Michael Bell <mic...@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
>> I got the non-delivery message below.
>
>> It seems to me that the first part says that I have been
>> given a wrong address for the the Belgian embassy.
>
>You have.
>
>> (It was a second-hand source, though I thought it
>> authoratitive).
>
>[Snip]
>
>> in...@belgium-embassy.co.uk
>
>Not the right address.
>
>www.belgium-embassy.co.uk takes you to a domain parking
>firm.
>
>The London Embassy's website is www.diplobel.org.uk which
>sounds and looks a lot more authoritative.
>
>The e-mail address is lon...@diplobel.be
>
>Nothing to do with your software.
>
understand that some servers have had "rogue" software planted to carry
out this.
Regards, Paul S.
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Paul Shayler M3TSF/G6TSF
Running the Internet accelerator ONSPEED.
Details at http://www.onspeed.com
Michael Bell
charles <cha...@charleshope.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4c78b6214e....@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
> Michael Bell <mic...@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
>> I got the non-delivery message below.
>
>> It seems to me that the first part says that I have been given a wrong
>> address for the the Belgian embassy. (It was a second-hand source,
>> though I thought it authoratitive).
>
> A quick google shows the website for the embassy: www.diplomatie.be/london
Using Google, I found one of the pages of the genuine (I think!)
Belgian embassy site, but clicking on the "home page" button got me to
a tourist company's site. Some kind of "pop-up" I suppose.
So I used Google, and I found the address I quote. But it was still
wrong!
Michael Bell
--
Michael Bell
Russell Hafter News <see...@walkingingermany.invalid>
wrote:
> In article
> <4c78b6214e....@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>,
> Michael Bell <mic...@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
>> I got the non-delivery message below.
>
>> It seems to me that the first part says that I have been
>> given a wrong address for the the Belgian embassy.
>
> You have.
>
>> (It was a second-hand source, though I thought it
>> authoratitive).
>
> [Snip]
>
>> in...@belgium-embassy.co.uk
>
> Not the right address.
>
> www.belgium-embassy.co.uk takes you to a domain parking
> firm.
>
> The London Embassy's website is www.diplobel.org.uk which
> sounds and looks a lot more authoritative.
>
> The e-mail address is lon...@diplobel.be
I used that one (actually a Belgian location for the London embassy?)
and it hasn't been bounced in 5 hours, so I suppose it's OK.
Michael Bell
--
Russell Hafter News
<1b67e3214e....@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael
Bell <mic...@beaverbell.co.uk> wrote:
> > The London Embassy's website is www.diplobel.org.uk
> > which sounds and looks a lot more authoritative.
> > The e-mail address is lon...@diplobel.be
> I used that one (actually a Belgian location for the
> London embassy?) and it hasn't been bounced in 5 hours,
> so I suppose it's OK.
Why not?
It is hardly surprising that diplomatic representations for
a country would use their own country's top level domain!
The Belgian Tourist Office Brussels and Wallonia in London
has the domain www.belgiumtheplaceto.be - quite clever.
But Flanders, Germany and the Czech republic all have .com
domains, Austria .info, at least for their English Language
sites.