[sclug] Change subject to RFC2822

[Patrick]

Thanks Ed - I hope you will bear with me changing topic but this puzzles me.

A friend writing to this email address always gets this error and has 
ended up using my work email instead.

"    SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data:
     host smtp-gw.x-mailer.co.uk [212.69.217.12]: 550 message does not
conform to RFC2822 syntax standard"

Any idea what it means?  And is it something I can do anything about?

Patrick

ed wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:11:32 +0000
> Patrick <patrick at kirks.net> wrote:
> 
>> What does reply 550 mean?
>  
>> Roland Turner (SCLUG) wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:11 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> 
>>> I have seen broken auto-responders so many times that I'd avoid
>>> using them wherever possible. Are you in control of the MTA and, if
>>> so, why not reply 550 with a short message in the human-readable
>>> portion of the message?
> 
> 550 is the status code, much like HTTP server responses, 2xx is
> successful, 5xx is usually bad. In this case, 5xx means "Do not try
> again, this error was fatal". 4xx errors on the other hand mean "Could
> not deliver the mail right now, so try again later". Most sending MTAs
> are configured to retry on default for a week before finally giving up.
>