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Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

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When I sending an email to address (f.i.) hans@riemers.de a Delivery Status Notification (Failure) is returned. This does not happen with other mail programs)

When I sending an email to address (f.i.) hans@riemers.de a Delivery Status Notification (Failure) is returned. This does not happen with other mail programs)

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What is the exact error message?

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This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

      hans@riemers.de
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That's all?

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YES, yes, just a mail with that content

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There isn't much to tell about the problem without the specific error code. You may contact your email provider for help.

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I have the same failure message (without error code). If I use my service providers email service via their website, the email is successful. My service provider thus concludes that the problem must be in the Thunderbird settings and that I may need to reinstall. However, I don't know how to do this without first uninstalling Thunderbird and thus losing all my archived emails and address book.

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Thunderbird separates the program installation from the profile with all your mail. Re-installing won't touch the profile unless you deliberately tick the box to remove the profile.

In any case, I think you'll just waste your time re-installing the application.

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Many thanks for the reply. If reinstalling won't help, any suggestions on what will? The only conclusion I can draw is to change to Outlook Express.

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roddymac,

you aren't the OP for this topic, so you should start your own one for your problem. https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new