What's with this

[Jack W]

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[Paddy]

We've been seeing a bit of that lately, Jack. Sandbox thinks it may be a spam load spike on our servers (which are shared). Seems to come and go - I had it a few times in the last week to two as well, and there is another thread here talking about it.

[Jack W]

I was able to split the message into 2 parts.

The first part posted fine - it was the text of a spam message.
The second part gave the error repeatedly. - It was the expanded headers of the spam message. Tried it several different times today. No joy.

- Jack

[jepinto]

There is something in headers that the software will NOT allow to be posted.  Try enclosing the offending headers inside Code /Code tags.  I think that may work.

It's a security measure, I do believe.  Now, if we knew what it was in the header that triggers it.....

Any chance you can email it to me?  That way I could (try to) post it at the IPB forums and ask.