Email Returned from apply@dmoz.org

I just applied to be an editor and getting a returned email from apply@dmoz.org I tested the address using 2 different email addresses. So wondering what I should do to get to the next step of my application? Also wanted to let you guys know so you can fix the problem so other people do not get the same problem.


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<apply@dmoz.org>
(reason: 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to editors.dmoz.org.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)

I have had the same problem today.

I returned to the e-mail data also showed that error

I also encountered the same problem, the server is not caused by jet lag and other issues,I use the Chinese yahoo e-mail,Contents Forum in the Chinese there are also e-mail problems, who can answer

error reply email

I had the same problem and im using hotmail, but what I did to over come the problem was create a new email, make a copy of the dmoz reply email address and copy the full subject line including the 32 character code which has the registration key, then paste the reply email address and subject line in to a new email and send, make sure its a blank email there should be nothing else apart from the dmoz reply email and the subject line and send, I did that and it worked for me I then got this email reply back: "Open Directory editor application received"

Hope this helps

Waheed Miah

waheedmiah said:

I had the same problem and im using hotmail, but what I did to over come the problem was create a new email, make a copy of the dmoz reply email address and copy the full subject line including the 32 character code which has the registration key, then paste the reply email address and subject line in to a new email and send, make sure its a blank email there should be nothing else apart from the dmoz reply email and the subject line and send, I did that and it worked for me I then got this email reply back: "Open Directory editor application received"

Hope this helps

Waheed Miah

Click to expand...

This issue is resolved: 1. Change-mail 2. Back to the theme of the opening theme of "back to" remove the word

blank email. it wasn't clear.... thanks waheedmiah!

still getting error

I've followed the above instructions by creating a new email and replying with that, but I'm still getting the same error message. I could be doing something wrong.

Please help.

Thanks!

It would probably help if you could clarify what dmoz.org address are you trying to send it to, the exact text of the error message you're receiving, and what email provider are you using to send the message?

I'm pretty sure its the exact same issue as stated by Collude above.

I use Yahoo and sent to apply@dmoz.org. Returned email was from "Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com>"

Here is the error text reply from my latest attempt:

The original message was received at Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400
from web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.59]


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<apply@dmoz.org>
(reason: 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to editors.dmoz.org.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-me05.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; apply@dmoz.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; editors.dmoz.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:44 -0400


-----Inline Message Follows-----

Received: from web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.59]) by rly-me05.mx.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINME054-9b8485728d01ef; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400
Received: (qmail 29804 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Jun 2008 03:00:32 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
h=Received:X-Mailerate:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID;
b=S6HyjvyWjhD6iT049z45w0RTo+aatoxY22YX3pe49C6xcqn9aGAJIlh0+E/l0zj0IHNVseHpDsIa7uwzEJnf9HHdhn/F/j9qfYyHgosGkerUINLclEZqk7n7FZb8/S0sDfNSZcS2YZiOKu+khQF5kkxgk3sJu8d3La0oaXH5n38=;
Received: from [68.48.139.114] by web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:31 PDT
X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/975.45 YahooMailWebService/0.7.199
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Will Fleiss <wfleiss@yahoo.com>
Subject: opendir - dd2cc7f33428ccb94f07d7cfad397289
To: Open Directory Application <apply@dmoz.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1574745054-1213671631=:23089"
Message-ID: <86949.23089.qm@web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
X-AOL-IP: 76.13.9.59
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE:0:2:322490112:93952408
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT:0
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: domain : web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.co ; SPF_helo =
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: domain : yahoo.co ; SPF_822_from =

Thanks for your help!

still receiving error

Here is the full text of the email reply I received from <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com> after sending confirmation to apply@dmoz.org (i use yahoo):

The original message was received at Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400
from web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.59]


*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<apply@dmoz.org>
(reason: 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to editors.dmoz.org.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-me05.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; apply@dmoz.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; editors.dmoz.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:44 -0400


-----Inline Message Follows-----

Received: from web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.59]) by rly-me05.mx.aol.com (v121.5) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINME054-9b8485728d01ef; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:00:32 -0400
Received: (qmail 29804 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Jun 2008 03:00:32 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
h=Received:X-Mailerate:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID;
b=S6HyjvyWjhD6iT049z45w0RTo+aatoxY22YX3pe49C6xcqn9aGAJIlh0+E/l0zj0IHNVseHpDsIa7uwzEJnf9HHdhn/F/j9qfYyHgosGkerUINLclEZqk7n7FZb8/S0sDfNSZcS2YZiOKu+khQF5kkxgk3sJu8d3La0oaXH5n38=;
Received: from [68.48.139.114] by web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:31 PDT
X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/975.45 YahooMailWebService/0.7.199
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Will Fleiss <wfleiss@yahoo.com>
Subject: opendir - dd2cc7f33428ccb94f07d7cfad397289
To: Open Directory Application <apply@dmoz.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1574745054-1213671631=:23089"
Message-ID: <86949.23089.qm@web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
X-AOL-IP: 76.13.9.59
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE:0:2:322490112:93952408
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT:0
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: domain : web65515.mail.ac4.yahoo.co ; SPF_helo =
X-AOL-SCOLL-AUTHENTICATION: domain : yahoo.co ; SPF_822_from =

Thanks!

waheedmiah said:

I did that and it worked for me I then got this email reply back: "Open Directory editor application received"

Waheed Miah

Click to expand...

Hey, thanks for posting your solution. I tried that...and haven't gotten an email failure notice yet. Wondering how long it was before you got the "application received" auto-reply? Was it instant or did it take a few hours?

@willfleiss -- I've given your application a kick, and it's now waiting in the queue for an editor to review it.

I'll try to have a closer look at the error messages later, but it does seem that there's some sort of problem on one of the AOL servers. It that remains my best guess I'll make sure it gets reported to the right people.

From my own quick tests, it looks like an intermittent problem -- if you get a delivery failure message like the one above, try sending the message again. It's probably not anything to do with the address you're sending from or whether or not there's any text in the message body. My tests showed about a 50% success rate.

If your reply is successfully prossed, you should get the "Open Directory editor application received" email in a matter of minutes.

(If you get a "Can't find authentication ticket" email, then the most likely cause is that you already made a successful reply. That reply ate the ticket up, and hence it can no longer be found.)

bouncing email

This problem might have been solved back in 2008 but today July 2nd 2009
I have encountered same problem. Please help. For obvious reasons, I have removed my email add.

<apply@dmoz.org>
** (reason: 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied)

**----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to editors.dmoz.org.:
DATA
<<< 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
550 5.1.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-me06.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:01:43 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; apply@dmoz.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; editors.dmoz.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <apply@dmoz.org>... Relaying denied
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:01:48 -0400
Received: from cobalt1.holidayextras.com (cobalt1.holidayextras.com [62.254.236.3]) by rly-me06.mx.aol.com (v124.15) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINME063-9bf4a4e0136153; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:01:43 -0400
Received: from [172.22.0.59] (unknown [172.22.0.59])
by cobalt1.holidayextras.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0426F9D90A
for <apply@dmoz.org>; Fri, *3 Jul 2009 14:01:41 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <997B77BF-7E5F-45E8-8CEB-E50CAC32860D@holidayextras.com>
From: xxx xxx <xx@holidayextras.com>
To: apply@dmoz.org (Open Directory Application)
In-Reply-To: <200907031036.n63AaRLf017717@core-n02.dmoz.aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3)
Subject: Re: opendir - 70a2fe223944668f0cccc8518e0f625f
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:01:41 +0100
References: <200907031036.n63AaRLf017717@core-n02.dmoz.aol.com>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3)
X-AOL-IP: 62.254.236.3
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE:0:2:466327040:93952408
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT:0

Problem still there...

Hi, exactly same problem today (september 19th 2009) from over here in France.

I tried to re-send the message three times. One attempt was successful at last.

Thanks for the tip on re-trying. I guess this is a good way to test the motivation of applicants ;-)... however, it probably discourages some would-be volunteers that won't try harder and find this forum post.

Hi ydubois, try posting the key (starts with opendir) and eventually proposed editor name and category applied for in this thread instead.