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How do I stop a email that I sent, that now keeps coming back as "fail", again and again and again without me trying to send it again?!

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I'm retired and I sent an email to a buddy back at work ( U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) It ends; @usace.army.mil. The email keeps coming back "fail" even though I only sent it once. How do I stop the system from continually trying to re-send the email. I've contacted my buddy on the phone and he said I've got the right email address, yet it keeps coming back "fail".  ????

I'm retired and I sent an email to a buddy back at work ( U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) It ends; @usace.army.mil. The email keeps coming back "fail" even though I only sent it once. How do I stop the system from continually trying to re-send the email. I've contacted my buddy on the phone and he said I've got the right email address, yet it keeps coming back "fail". ????

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Some mail servers will continue to attempt delivery for as much as 72 hours. One thing you need to take particular notice of is the failure reason. What is it?

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Thanks Matt. I looked as you suggested and it mostly says "Permanent Error" As you can see below. (I copied and pasted what I kept getting back from them.) Hopefully it'll stop after 72 hours. Thanks again for your efforts and consideration. :>)

   This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.      

Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:

  * thomas.g.stedman@usace.army.mil

Reason: Permanent Error


Reporting-MTA: dns; resqmta-po-07v.sys.comcast.net [96.114.154.166] Received-From-MTA: dns; resomta-po-17v.sys.comcast.net [96.114.154.241] Arrival-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:28:14 +0000


Final-recipient: rfc822; thomas.g.stedman@usace.army.mil Diagnostic-Code: smtp; Last-attempt-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:21:15 +0000



Received: from resomta-po-17v.sys.comcast.net ([96.114.154.241]) by resqmta-po-07v.sys.comcast.net with ESMTP id YmRwebEKemVsPYmSMe0wve; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:28:14 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20161114; t=1515475694; bh=vvG5Q0NlkEMFxv3es5RPp05ix++DhwBeonMZYZs4Khc=; h=Received:Received:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version: Content-Type; b=S49dz8tNyqRvYs35QWl9e92b+6PiU0EndW2tm/UsA058tV0bTsaDiStFsqEe4aOqV MmL8Cc/Ktz4xeBsiqlqGc9RuUFPjbDVSrSNpjXk5iiok1jNhEpk7XeFF7eJAyuLJhN d9Y8nQ0laJ0wh6qu1bmGjDF7UKKNb2k4vyy8YDlTmUxS1HiQh9gYxjXa01qe7v+/lW 2lGoMuUOEg2tiZzeIRSg/hZy3JfW1xVe8XpCVZzFoNPyHwHNiQmC0ZJ7cRN7ZX/4EW RjIVKsOJ1eGloQsC4aEbRb6snaESU3gcckaMUHWnmPrh/QdA+0AgviXGdv2+XywPQc a32rxCl1JhmwA== Received: from [IPv6:2600:6c55:6300:3fdf:0:3969:88bf:68b4] ([IPv6:2600:6c55:6300:3fdf:0:3969:88bf:68b4]) by resomta-po-17v.sys.comcast.net with SMTP id YmSAeMBshZi66YmSFeHJzh; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:28:11 +0000 To: "Thomas S.-work" <Thomas.G.Stedman@usace.army.mil> From: Mark & Jo Anne <merlot1@comcast.net> Subject: TEST Message-ID: <9fbc37af-98cd-8557-bc15-abfc170997b8@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 21:28:02 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101

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