This error message seems rather confusing to me. Aside from the fact that the message itself has remained "undeliverable", I dot not understand why the connection would have been refused by this server when I have not had similar trouble in teh past. Any ideas? Glenn Alperin ________________________________________________________________________________ The enclosed message, found in the FACEBLIND mailbox and shown under the spool ID 10839273 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice for the following reason: "X-Report-Type:" field found in the mail header. ------------------------ Message in error (107 lines) ------------------------- Received: from amdext2.amd.com by maelstrom.stjohns.edu (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 6:19:08 -0500 Received: from amdint2.amd.com (amdint2.amd.com [163.181.250.1]) by amdext2.amd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AMD) with ESMTP id FAA08018 for <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:19:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost) by amdint2.amd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AMD) with internal id FAA09901; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:19:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:19:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[log in to unmask]> Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="FAA09901.906113942/amdint2.amd.com" Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout) This is a MIME-encapsulated message --FAA09901.906113942/amdint2.amd.com ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:18:37 -0500 (CDT) from amdext2.amd.com [163.181.251.1] ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@txexmta4 (expanded from: <[log in to unmask]>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@txexmta4... Deferred: Connection refused by txexmta4.amd.com. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 1 day old --FAA09901.906113942/amdint2.amd.com Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; amdint2.amd.com Arrival-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:18:37 -0500 (CDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[log in to unmask]> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; [log in to unmask] Action: delayed Status: 4.4.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; txexmta4.amd.com Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 05:19:02 -0500 (CDT) Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 01:18:37 -0500 (CDT) --FAA09901.906113942/amdint2.amd.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from amdext2.amd.com (amdext2.amd.com [163.181.251.1]) by amdint2.amd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AMD) with ESMTP id BAA26689 for <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:18:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu (maelstrom.stjohns.edu [149.68.1.24]) by amdext2.amd.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AMD) with ESMTP id BAA19269 for <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:18:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu by maelstrom.stjohns.edu (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 2:18:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 02:17:46 EDT Reply-To: faceblind The Face Blind Folks <[log in to unmask]> Sender: faceblind The Face Blind Folks <[log in to unmask]> From: xxx xxxxxx <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: mighty metaphors To: [log in to unmask]