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Free SMTP error codes

Free, the French internet provider, hosts the free.fr mailboxes of its subscribers and runs the outgoing servers they send through.

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Permanent failures (5xx)

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The receiving server refused the message for good. Your server will not try again, and the message comes back to you as a bounce.

  1. 550Message detected as spam.The Free antispam filter judged the message to be spam and refused it on arrival. Free has a false positive procedure for legitimate mail.Permanent
  2. 550Too many errors from your IP.Your server caused too many errors while talking to Free servers, or behaved like a dictionary attack, so its IP is blocked for a while.Permanent

Temporary failures (4xx)

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The receiving server cannot take the message now. Your server keeps it and retries, and only bounces it if the retries run out.

  1. 421Too many errors from your IP, temporary.Free has paused mail from your IP because of the errors it generated. This is the warning stage; more errors lead to the longer block.Temporary
  2. 421Too many connections from your Free line.Free's outgoing mail servers refused the connection because too many were opened from your Free internet connection, at once or in a short period.Temporary
  3. 421Too many recipients or mails from your Free line.Free's outgoing servers counted too many recipients or too many mails from your internet connection and stopped accepting more for now.Temporary

Provider references

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Tags the provider prints in its replies without a standard code of their own.

  1. Too many spams from your IP.Your server sent too much spam to Free subscribers, so Free stopped accepting its connections for up to 24 hours. The page does not settle which reply code comes with it.

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