hi Yuki, so then turning the spam filter off indeed solves the problem. I did not see any use for it since almost all my incoming messages were labelled SPAM. Turning it off seems to work for me although McAfee gives a message that my system is now "unprotected" ....
regards, Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Yuki Taga To: Edward Pottasch Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [amibroker] Another Hard Bounce Hi Ed, Sunday, January 14, 2007, 5:50:03 PM, you wrote: EP> hi, EP> what is the reason for these hard bounces? I have them as well. EP> However when I set the "Email Spam Security" Off, of my McAfee EP> security center I did not -yet- have any bounces. I thought the reason was on my side .... There are some anti-SPAM programs that try to combat SPAM by bouncing messages. This is a really *bad* idea of course, because almost all return email addresses on SPAM are forgeries. Bouncing simply clogs up the network with packets that mean nothing to anyone. Perhaps this is what Yahoo! means by "hard bounce". I'm not sure. Yuki
