I mistyped an email address in gmail. This resulted in the destination domain pointing not to a local business but instead to a squatter's domain. 24 hours and 35 minutes later, I got a message back from gmail's 'Mail Delivery Subsystem' mailer-daemon@googlemail.com:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:
email@wrongdomian.comMessage will be retried for 2 more day(s)
Technical details of temporary failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect.
Learn more at http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=7720
[Some details of the destination:]
421 Service Unavailable----- Original message -----
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From this information, I was able to correct the email and resend it to the desired recipient. Today, I got another update:
Technical details of temporary failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the
recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider
for further information about the cause of this error. The error
that the other server returned was:
451 451 Try again later (state 13).
I know that it's going to try again tomorrow. I know that it's going to fail. I don't want it to send another ping to the email-address-harvesting squatter sitting on a server with an i-before-e misspelling of a common business.
There are a litany of other errors the destination server could respond with. My understanding of the STMP server response codes and this incident seem to indicate that all of the 400-level error codes indicate temporary errors from the response server and that the attempt might work again if I try later. Currently, gmail is trying again later without my consent. I understand why they did that, but I know something it doesn't know (the email address is wrong) and I don't want it to try again later.
How can I convince gmail to stop trying to send this message?
