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What Does "Message Not Delivered" Mean?
What Does "Message Not Delivered" Mean?
Updated over a month ago

Related Questions:

  • Why do my emails bounce back?

Answer:

A recipient’s email server can reject emails that you send for a number of reasons. Your email provider returns a message reflecting the response provided by the recipient’s email server, not Event Temple

Here are the common error messages that you might encounter and how to fix the problem: ​

The email account that you tried to reach does not exist

Your recipient's address might not exist anymore or, you might’ve entered it with a typo.

What you can do

  1. Check for these common mistakes in the address you're emailing:

    • Quotation marks

    • Dots at the end of the address

    • Spaces before or after an address

    • Spelling errors

  2. Search your Contacts for a different address that the same person uses.

If you got this error while emailing someone at your work, school, or other organization, contact your administrator.


‘Message flagged as spam' or ‘Message temporarily rejected’

Why your message bounced

  • Your message text or links look suspicious.

  • You added a large group of recipients to Cc or Bcc.

What you can do

  1. Remove links to websites asking for personal information.

  2. Ask the customer to add your email to their safe sender list / whitelist


‘Recipient server did not accept our requests'

Why your message bounced

You'll see this error message if Gmail can’t connect to your recipient’s email server.

What you can do

The problem usually goes away quickly without you doing anything. Try sending the email again later.

If you keep seeing the error:

  1. Check if there are any mistakes in the recipient's email address.

  2. Contact the customer support team of your recipient's email provider.

If you got this error while emailing someone at your work, school, or other organization, contact your administrator.

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