In addition to the information provided in the 'learn more' link, a socket error may be due to a high volume of traffic to those (safcom/access) nameservers, which gmail is asking for the recipient domain mx record - ie the IP address of the recipient's mail server. As gmail help states: " This problem usually goes away quickly" - so wait a bit and see :) Tony On 19/02/2016, Tusker 21 via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

I am experiencing the following errors after sending emails.

*THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed: xxxxx@xxxxxxx.com <xxxxx@xxxxxxx.com>Message 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 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720>[mx1.safaricombusiness.co.ke <http://mx1.safaricombusiness.co.ke/>. 41.203.208.3 <http://41.203.208.3/>: socket error][mx2.safaricombusiness.co.ke <http://mx2.safaricombusiness.co.ke/>. 41.203.208.120 <http://41.203.208.120/>: socket error]*

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*Technical details of temporary failure:The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720>[mail.accesskenya.com <http://mail.accesskenya.com/>. 196.200.16.3 <http://196.200.16.3/>: socket error][smtpin.accesskenya.com <http://smtpin.accesskenya.com/>. 196.200.16.3 <http://196.200.16.3/>: socket error]*

Anyone experienced the same errors before?

R, T21

-- Tony White