Delivery Status Notification error: Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
Question:
Got this message???? Can you help me out???
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Delay)This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
Answer:
That message is something you may get every once in a while. It’s an indicator that something happened between your PC, your mail server, and the mail server of the person you were sending to.
If this happens to you sporadically, I wouldn’t worry about it. Delays in email are as inevitable as delays in postal mail: they’re rare, but we’re not surprised when they happen.
What will happen based on the error message you got is this: Your email server will attempt to re-send the email. Typically this will happen within a few minutes or hours. Hopefully the email will go through. If the email doesn’t go through, and couldn’t be delivered, you’ll receive another email in a day or so telling you this.
As for now, however, the message you got is informational only, and doesn’t even mean that something’s wrong. If you continue to get this message, or if you get the final message indicating your email could not be delivered, then there is a problem that needs to be fixed.
