Returned email with errors in parameters or arguments

[Kochanie]

For the past 3 days when I try to send email to one person at the charter.net
domain, it is returned almost immediately. I have always used hotmail.com as
my email address for the past 8 years. This is the message I get on the
returned mail:

Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com
Received-From-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
Arrival-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:20:20 -0800

Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments

 

[Kochanie]

I have:

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8122)SP2
Part of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003


I don't use my IP email at all. I use only web-based hotmail.com to
send/receive emails and gmail.com.

I have both satellite and dialup connections and get the same return error
message for this particular person. I have been sending and receiving from
pabinee for almost a year with no problems until 2/21/2007. Pabinee even
went so far as to create an account on hotmail [which my emails get thru to
him at that address] and send himself an email from hotmail to his
charter.net address and it went thru with no problem.

Any idea of what suddenly has gone wrong? I have updated all the required
updates for this Office package.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

See http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/05/21/smtp-replies.html

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Kochanie asked:

| For the past 3 days when I try to send email to one person at the
| charter.net domain, it is returned almost immediately. I have always
| used hotmail.com as my email address for the past 8 years. This is
| the message I get on the returned mail:
|
| Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com
| Received-From-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
| Arrival-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:20:20 -0800
|
| Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
| Action: failed
| Status: 5.5.0
| Diagnostic-Code: smtp;501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments

 

[it2_hill]

Seehttp://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/05/21/smtp-replies.html

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

After furious head scratching, Kochanie asked:

| For the past 3 days when I try to send email to one person at the
| charter.net domain, it is returned almost immediately. I have always
| used hotmail.com as my email address for the past 8 years. This is
| the message I get on the returned mail:
|
| Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com
| Received-From-MTA: dns;hotmail.com
| Arrival-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:20:20 -0800
|
| Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
| Action: failed
| Status: 5.5.0
| Diagnostic-Code: smtp;501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments

Any luck on this one? I have the same problem going to a charter.net
address that I had been sending to for years.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Any luck on this one? I have the same problem going to a charter.net
address that I had been sending to for years.

Honestly, your best bet might be to contact the postmaster at charter.net
and tell them what is happening. It sounds like a config issue on one of
their SMTP servers not liking the conversation. It might very well be that
the sending server (hotmail.com in the case above, whatever it is on your
end) is what is at fault, but, the people with the keys to the server will
be the ones who can tell more easily what is happening to cause the error
and to contact the postmasters at whoever is sending to them to cause the
error to work on a fix.

Honestly, if your server takes the message and then sends you a failed
delivery status notification, Outlook is out of the picture.

 

[jpnord]

Honestly, your best bet might be to contact the postmaster at charter.net
and tell them what is happening. It sounds like a config issue on one of
their SMTP servers not liking the conversation. It might very well be that
the sending server (hotmail.com in the case above, whatever it is on your
end) is what is at fault, but, the people with the keys to the server will
be the ones who can tell more easily what is happening to cause the error
and to contact the postmasters at whoever is sending to them to cause the
error to work on a fix.

Honestly, if your server takes the message and then sends you a failed
delivery status notification, Outlook is out of the picture.

I am also having the same problem. The funny thing is is that if I
send through my hotmail account on the internet it goes through fine.
If I send it through my outlook express it goes through fine. It only
happens with outlook. I thought it might be something on my computer
so I added my hotmail account to outlook on my work computer and I get
the same error.

 

[Kochanie]

Actually, I would log into hotmail.com and send from the website and still
get the bounced back failed delivery message. I asked hotmail support about
this as my friend at charter.net got a hotmail.com email address and sent
himself a few letters and had no issue whatsoever with charter.net not
accepting them. He also CC'd me on those letters and I did a reply all to
which his hotmail address got the reply but charter.net did not.

After he played around with his ISP we came to the conclusion that for some
reason hotmail.com has a server that I happen to be directed to which is not
allowing SMTP messages to go out to charter.net. Hotmail support staff sent
my friend at charter.net several test messages and had no problem with them
going thru. I'm still waiting on an answer from hotmail.com as to why I
still can not send my friend at charter.net [whom I have been sending email
to for over a year with no problems] an email. This issue all started around
the second week of February.

So you are right in that it is a config issue on one of the SMPT servers but
it is on a hotmail server and not charter.net. And it doesn't have anything
to do with Outlook or Outlook Express.