I run a reminder service (plug - www.emailremind.co.uk) and everynight we run a routine to produce and send the reminders. However I am getting a LOT of failures to hotmail accounts - my original thought was that this was because the hotmail accounts had lapsed, and created my own account and tested it okay! However this is what I get back...

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The original message was received at Sun, 3 Jun 2001 09:39:43 +0100
from 007admin@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
A Name<a_name@hotmail.com>
(reason: 554 Transaction failed)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mc2.law5.hotmail.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 554 Transaction failed
554 5.0.0 A Name<A_Name@hotmail.com>... Service unavailable
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Can anyone shed anylight as to why this would happen? This is a PERL routine running via a cronjob, sending the mail via SENDMAIL - Thanks

Hi

I have the same problem now, How did you solve this problem?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Babak

I haven't... but it does seem to be imporving from the hotmail end, I don't get half as many as I used to0.