Incoming MAC Mail Bouncing

Half of my incoming emails are bouncing.
When I send an email through my MAC account to his MAC account, it bounces back at me.
I've had MAC mail for 3 years and have been experiencing this since May.
What is going on?

A 452 error typically means:
"SMTP Error 452 : The ISP server’s disk system has run
out of storage space, so the action had to be cancelled.
Unless you are with an ISP which is so slack that they
have not implemented Disk Full Alerts, this error usually
indicates that your ISP’s mail server is overloaded from too
many messages. This can happen even to the best ISPs
when, for example, there have been problems and none of
the ISP’s customers could send mail; as soon as the
problems are fixed there is almost always a situation where
thousands of users and organizations are trying to send
mail all at the same time, and those numbers can
occasionally result in the ISP’s mail servers’ hard disks
temporarily filling up, with SMTP Error 452 being the result.
The next attempt to send by your server may prove
successful."
So if this continues, first check the status of .Mac or MobileMe on the Apple web site, and if there's no problem listed, or there's no resolution listed for this recent problem, call them and ask about it and when it's going to be resolved or how they can resolve it immediately.
Mulder

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Making a rule to simply move emails from an unwanted sender (with a real email address) to the trash, is no solution at all. The whole point is to Reject that person's email by bouncing it back to them, with the intention of showing them they have NOT reached a valid email address. The whole point is to STOP their behavior, not accept it. Your suggestion, that I have to allow the unwanted email to come in, for me to have to deal with it, trashing it or otherwise, sounds like the attitude of the spammers.
Let's not confuse the point here, Apple put the "bounce mail" feature in Mac mail for a reason, and I just want it to work again.
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"Today, however, most email is spam, which usually utilizes forged Return-Paths. It is then often impossible for the MTA to inform the originator, and sending a bounce to the forged Return-Path would hit an innocent third party. In addition, there are specific reasons why it is preferable to silently drop a message rather than reject it (let alone bounce it):
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Hi, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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Mail from my @mac.com account is always bounced. Mail from Gmail or personal domain works. I'm using Mac Mail for all services.
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3)
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
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------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
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by xxxx.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1QyWW7-00068t-4L
for [email protected]; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:10:47 -0500
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Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_FD35DA65-81A3-4337-819F-ADD8A017D14D"
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thomjw wrote:
Making a rule to simply move emails from an unwanted sender (with a real email address) to the trash, is no solution at all. The whole point is to Reject that person's email by bouncing it back to them, with the intention of showing them they have NOT reached a valid email address. The whole point is to STOP their behavior, not accept it. Your suggestion, that I have to allow the unwanted email to come in, for me to have to deal with it, trashing it or otherwise, sounds like the attitude of the spammers.
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Bouncing email is not unique to Apple's Mail. There is a RFC specifying how bouncing should be handled. Thomas already explained why bouncing email is not a good idea. Here is the reason quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeliveryreport.
"Today, however, most email is spam, which usually utilizes forged Return-Paths. It is then often impossible for the MTA to inform the originator, and sending a bounce to the forged Return-Path would hit an innocent third party. In addition, there are specific reasons why it is preferable to silently drop a message rather than reject it (let alone bounce it):
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