"Bounce" feature in Mail doesnt appear to work.

Subject says it all, I cant remember the last time I used the bounce feature in Leopard, maybe about 7 months ago but I know it worked ok then.
No matter what email I try to bounce it doesn't sent the original sender an email to say that my email address doesn't exist.
I checked the status when I clicked bounce and do actually see an email being sent but it never gets received. I have tried this between a hotmail account and my mobileme account.
any ideas? I really like this feature.

Barney-15E wrote:
Bouncing is probably not achieving the affect you think.
Is there a way to achieve the affect? I would like to not only give a particular spammer the impression that my email address is no longer valid, I would also like to set up a rule that will Bounce it immediately upon receiving it so I don't have to do it manually hours or sometimes days after I received it. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

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