Seriously... I NEED to get a reply sent! Long story short, beautiful girl met in passing, I give her my hotmail address, and miraculously she writes; Unfortunatly, the email can't be responded too as the reply of mine just returns instantly with a Delivery Status Notification (Failure)! Noooooo! The address is in this format;
And looking at the full headers, it's not a spoofed address either; but I can't reply to it! HNNNGH! Help my blood pressure out here you normal-orange users; is there a solution to this, or must I set up a non-hotmail address to send this?
I just tested hotmail with my orangehome email account, it works fine.
Damn damn DAMN. All I can think of then is that it was sent via an Outlook Express type program with an incorrectly written outgoing email address... because the entire MIME header lists it just as XXXX@orangehome.co.uk all the way back to sending IP address. Oh noooooo! I don't suppose there's a searchable directory of orangehome addresses is there?
Oh noooooo! I don't suppose there's a searchable directory of orangehome addresses is there?
I hope not, it would be a spammers paradise.
The xxxxx before the @ is a sort of catchall for the domain part. You could adjusting what you have and put anything@xxxxxxx.orangehome.co.uk . It might work......
Joined: 16 Dec 2006Posts: 108Location: North Essex
Just to throw another possible spanner in the works... I sent a message to my old Freeserve address (which, to all intents and purposes is the same as orangehome) from my Hotmail account a couple of hours ago, having seen this thread. It hasn't bounced (yet), but equally it hasn't arrived. (There are, however, 600+ spams which *have* made it through in the past 24 hours....).
So, even with the correct address, it could be that there's a Hotmail / Orange problem of some sort anyway.
Yes, some of the internet searching I did seemed to indicate Orange messages tend to go funky when sent to other services; I found a report from 2007 that their spam filters were automatically rejecting Hotmail messages, but as mentioned, the problem is most likely that it's just misreported the originating email.... Well so far, I've mailed customer support (FROM HERE, because their web page is so badly maintained all the help documents are broken links) in the hopes that if I provide the header proof they'll at least bounce one message on for me. And otherwise I'm just googling like made to try and find the missing details... coming up next, Facebook etc searches for the rough area she said she lives, and crossing my fingers!
All of which sounds pretty dodgy I know, but damned if I'll let a possible romance slip through my fingers due to being lazy.
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