(03-25-2009 08:23 AM)rbtux Wrote: I really don't know what they mean with soft and hard bounces... I think they refer to mailinglists. In mailinglists it's common removing a user from the subscribers when a mail to his address is bounce serveral times (5 times is mailman default). I think that means hard bounce in yahoo terms, and the bounces that don't lead to unlisting (which would mean the first 4 bounces) would mean softbounce then...
Just tell them you are not running maillinglists, just a normal mailserver...
i said that but i don't think that matters since i already told what i've found:
* A soft bounce is an e-mail message that gets as far as the recipient's mail server, but is bounced back before it reaches the recipient.
* A hard bounce is an e-mail message that has been returned to you because the recipient's address is invalid.
so i guess this option is default somewhere so when a messege is sent it will be resent in the case of a soft bounce...
well i'll just tell them 3 for soft bounces and 1 for hard bounces and specify that i have a normal mail server... i hope this ends this charade.