Why cant I send e amil from this address?

I get a "Problem Found - Message Not Sent" error


When you click the "Send" button to send a message in Yahoo! Mail, we automatically check the addresses of your intended recipients to make sure that each of them has been entered in a valid format. If we detect an unpermitted character or a format which is prohibited by Internet mail standards, you'll receive a "Problem Found" error on the Compose Mail screen.


Common causes of this error include:





Missing parts of a domain. Domains must be fully specified. Leaving out part of an address, for example, the ".com", will produce this error.


Illegal characters, including spaces and commas. Because email must be routed through various mail systems, certain characters cannot be included in an address. These include, spaces, commas, colons (:), and a few more. In addition, addresses cannot include more than one "at" (@) symbol. If your correspondent has given you an illegal address with one of these characters, chances are he or she also has a version of the address without them. Spaces aren't allowed as part of an address, but spaces can exist before or after an address.


Currently it's not possible to post directly to a news group through Yahoo! Mail such as news group names like alt.fan.yahoomail.


To send your message, you will need to make a change in the "To," "Cc," or "Bcc" fields so that all addresses contained in those fields are legal. If you're using nicknames or group names, make sure that the addresses in your address book are all properly formatted.

Why cant I send e amil from this address?
Yahoo has been having major server issues since at LEAST last Wednesday. And the problems are not just w/Yahoo Beta or IE7; I and others not using either are having similar problems. But both do have more problems; if you're using Beta, it's still in the testing stage and has a lot of problems, so go back to original Yahoo mail, and the same w/IE7, go back to IE6 until MS irons out all the problems.


I've had to use another acct.provided free by my ISP to send/rcv important e-mails since last Wed., and it's been working just fine the whole time. If you don't have another acct.w/another provider besides Yahoo, I'd strongly advise to get one; it makes a good backup in case of problems like this.


Please see my posting from Fri. Jan. 12 under the heading "Anyone having problems of any kind w/Yahoo Mail, PLEASE READ THIS" for more info and on reporting problems to Yahoo.


And since that original posting, they've also sent another e-mail that they've escalated the problem (or should I say problems!) to their engineering department, which is an indication of major problems, and not just a minor S/W "glitch."

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