Where is this e-mail error message originating?

[Dave]

I'm suddenly getting a number of the following e-mail messages:

From: [email protected]****here.biz
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.m****here.biz.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:

Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

Normally, I would put this down to someone changing their e-mail address, but I received this e-mail error at the same time for 4 different people. They are all with the same ISP however. Usually such a message is from the ISP's mailer daemon, but it indicates m****here so I'm confused as to where it is originating. Plus, it says the qmail-send program which I am not using.

Is this a problem at the other end with ISP, or something to do with Hsphere at JodoHost?

Thanks.

 

[Yash]

It means that our mail server was unable to deliver your email to the destination ISP

Since you say these emails were all bound for the same ISP, I am pretty sure there must have been an issue with them. Try sending them again

 

[Dave]

Thanks for the clarification, Yash. I guess their mail server is down or something, or at least the one where these people are. Since they have many hundreds of thousands of users throughout western Canada, I assume they use more than one mail server.