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Normally, the reason you have reached this page is because a mail server has sent you a message when it rejected an email from you, or one of your users.
Although email servers can by RFC accept connections with very little validation, Best Practises documents describe the need to give enough information that will help the recipient and email server operators to identify who is sending the information.
In order to ensure that messages are not stopped by this check, the sending server or email client software has to make sure that the MAIL FROM: address that is sent conforms to RFC2822 standards.
The MAIL FROM string received should in the style of:
MAIL FROM: <name@domain.com>Example:
MAIL FROM: <johhnyb@westminister.gov.ca>The following bad examples will get rejected:
MAIL FROM: johnnybIf the MAIL FROM address does not conform to RFC standards, the message will be rejected. If you are the one sending the message, and you were blocked with this message, it is most likely that you do not have your email client set up correctly and you should read the next section.
MAIL FROM: <johnnyb@domain.com@domain.com>
MAIL FROM: <johnnyb@localhost.localdomain>
If your email was blocked, and the link sent you here it is probably because your email client is not set up correctly, or your outgoing mail server
is setup incorrectly.
The main problem will usually be in your email/account settings, (eg. in OutLook or Thunderbird)
Normally, this rule will only block spammers who
try to forge information to hide their identity. If you get this message, the best thing to do is to call your ISP support line for help
on setting up your email client. If you are the intended recipient, this is something you can't do any thing about. The sender will have to
fix their settings, even if they can send to others and not you.