“Mail Could not be sent” Error Message In Entourage 2008 For Mac

Are you receiving following error message while trying to send email in Entourage 2008:

“Mail could not be sent” Error 17099

The message text may called as “syntax error” that appear just before the number. The error massage also includes any of the following information:

• Error: Transaction failed: Rejected by content filter
• 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax
• Error: Could not relay message
• 4.3.0 Mail server temporarily rejected message
• 5.7.1 Message content rejected
• Error: 4.4.5 Too many connections to this listener
• Error 5.5.1 – disapproved since there is a violation on policy
• Error 5.5.0 <vcxczvb> domain name required
• Error Invalid sender address
• Error – Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or not local
• Error – Domain name xxx.com does not resolve or mail not configured
• 5.5.2 Syntax error

how to fix it?

Most of the email providers impose a limit on the number of entries that you can easily put into the TO, CC, and BCC fields. They also limit the number of messages that you can send in 24 hours of time period. This is the main cause of the problem if you could prior to 24 hours ago but you can’t be able to send email within the past 12 to 24 hours. To fix this issue you need to follow these below mentioned steps:

Step 1: Check the Outbox

This problem mainly occurs because Entourage is trying to receive a corrupt email message. The outgoing message is get corrupted and entourage is continuously getting fail to send the message successfully.

To fix out this issue, press and hold the Shift key. After pressing this you will see that the send and receive operations are halt at startup. Now delete the message of outbox, exit Entourage, and restart the program again. This time you will need to re-create the message. If the problem persists the same then follow the other step.

Step 2: Review all POP and SMTP settings

To review all the POP and SMTP settings you need to follow these steps:

• Start Entourage.
• Click to Tools option and then click Accounts.
• Make double-click the account that you have set up in the Entourage.
• Review the settings to check out each and everything correctly. If you send email without errors, see the “Important” note at the starting of the “Resolution” section.
• Now clear the Outbox.

If you are getting this error while sending massage to your friends group then divide the bigger group into smaller ones and then send message to each group separately.

Step 3:

As another option you can take help of the third party repair tool such as Entourage Repair Tool. This tool is well suited to repairs the corrupted/damaged; inaccessible entourage database and can fix entourage errors. It easily archives the Entourage email database to backup data and transfers the Entourage account completely. This tool also allows the user to retrieve Entourage database from RGE files. It efficiently extracts almost every type of database objects. With the help of easy interface this tool allows you to perform the repair tasks in very simple way.

Steps for using Entourage repair tool:

Step 1: Start the Entourage repair Tool software. Then ‘Select Entourage Database File’ dialog box which gets displayed first by default. In the text box you will find a default location of database file, is by default selected. Press on ‘Browse’ option to select database file from any other location.

Step 2: After this the file will scan itself. After completion of scanning process, a summary message box will get displayed. Click on the ‘Close’ button to close this message box.

Step 3: After this have a preview of the repaired Entourage database file before saving, open it in Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair. You will find the default repaired mail which is displayed on the preview window. To have a preview of any mail, click on ‘Mail’ button of the Tool bar or go to ‘View’ menu and click Mail option. You can even select your desired Entourage mailbox folder to see its contents.

Step 4: To save the repaired entourage file at your desired location, click on the File option on the application’s menu bar. Select the ‘Save Repaired File’ option. After this you will find the ‘Destination Folder’ dialog box. Select your desired destination for saving the repaired file.

Step 5: After this you will find a Saving process dialog box. You can even click on ‘Stop’ button to stop the file saving process.