Korean Job Discussion Forums

[cwilliam]

Hello,
Was wondering if anyone else has problems with emailing from
their yahoo account to korean email addresses: hanmir.com, or hanmail.net.
it's strange, because it sometimes occurs when i reply to an email sent and then get a 'message failure' or whatever from mailer-daemon dot yahoo.

other times there's no problem.

anyone have any info?

[denverdeath]

I'm not too sure about Yahoo; but, unless the problems been fixed, you cannot reply to hanmail from hotmail...you can receive messages, but not reply to them. That's been my experience anyway.

[Ya-ta Boy]

hanmail has been a problem for years and years. There are different theories about why it's a problem.

[mindmetoo]

There's been a lot of talk about this in the past in the tech forum. The theories:

1) Hotmail/yahoo blocked Korean email providers for the massive volumes of spam they would pump out and their utter indifference to spam until the Korean government was so embarrassed by the bad press of Korea being spam central that they changed the laws. Koreans blocked hotmail/yahoo in retaliation and, along with Apollo Ono, still hold that grudge in place.

2) The Korean email providers got into a dispute with hotmail/yahoo. They figured hotmail/yahoo should pay them a fee for every hotmail/yahoo email they deliver to their customers. Hotmail/yahoo laughed at this idea. Korean email providers responded by cutting off their system from the rest of the world.

3) Many Korean web mail services have a default spam setting that blocks email from hotmail/yahoo or email with English in the subject line/body. The user has to turn this setting off. Many users don't know about it.

4) Because this is Korea.

[huck]

Use a gmail account. It gets through to everything.

[RACETRAITOR]

At the moment, it is possible for Hotmail to send messages to Hanmail. I don't expect it to last.

[n3ptne]

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[Ekuboko]