Applies to: sending email from a Nexus365 account using Outlook desktop or web
Symptoms of a permissions error
When you send an email you receive a new message from System Administrator with "Undeliverable" added to your subject line. The message body includes the text
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: ...
Sent: ...
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
...
This message could not be sent. Try sending the message again later, or
contact your network administrator. You do not have the permission to
send the message on behalf of the specified user. If you see this error message then solutions 1 and 2 below are most likely to sort this out for you.
Symptoms of an invalid recipient address
When you send an email you receive a new message from Microsoft Outlook with "Undeliverable" added to your subject line. The message body includes the text
Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:
[EMAIL ADDRESSES]
Examine the text below for diagnostic information returned from the remote server. If
you have further problems then please contact help@it.ox.ac.uk.
The following organisation rejected your message: ...
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: ...
[EMAIL ADDRESSES]
#550-RPT-FAL: Recipient failed verification. 550 Cannot deliver to this recipient. ##
This error message indicates that you have used an invalid or unrecognised email address in to To, CC or BCC field of your email. Solution 3 below is most likely to sort this out for you.
Solution 1 - Preferred email address
This solution is probably the best one if you have email addresses for several colleges or departments and want to change which email address is used on your outgoing mail.
- Login to your Nexus mailbox settings
- Select your personal mailbox, select Preferred email address settings, and select Submit
- Select the email address you want to send from, then select Submit
Solution 2 - Delegated access
This solution is probably the best one if you need to send email from another mailbox, such as a generic mailbox like dean@college.ox.ac.uk.
- Contact the owner of the mailbox or your local ITSS and request permission to send from the mailbox
- Write a message in Outlook, and select Options > From (Outlook app) or ... > Show From (Outlook web) to add a drop-down field for selecting the mailbox your message will be sent from
Solution 3 - Check recipient address(es)
- First off, note that your email will have been sent to any recipients not listed in the error message. So you don't need to resend your message to them
- Double-check that you have typed all recipient email addresses correctly, and refer back to where you found the email addresses originally. Note that even if this was in the To or Cc field of a message sent to you, the original sender may have typed it incorrectly and also got an error
- Contact the intended recipient by another means and ask them to email you so that you can reply and/or add them to your contacts list
Further information
The preferred email address for a mailbox can only be set in Nexus mailbox settings and is the only address that can used to send email from the selected mailbox. If you configure Outlook to send from this mailbox using any other address then you will get the error message above. In practice this means that you cannot change the address you send from on a message-by-message basis. For example, if you have a college email address and a department email address then you can only send from the address you have selected as your preferred email address, even though both addresses work for receiving email.
Microsoft provide details on how to open and use a shared mailbox in Outlook.
