Questions tagged [email-bounces]

email bounces are messages that are delivered to the nominated postmaster account on an email server to indicate a problem delivering the mail to one or more recipients.

email bounces are messages that are delivered to the nominated postmaster account on an email server to indicate a problem delivering the mail to one or more recipients.

Bounces can result from unknown users, failed mail servers, or other network or configuration issues.

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forwarding mail loop in postfix

recently i configured my postfix server with dovecot, sasl and ldap according some tutorials. it works fine indeed but always when i receive email it disappears after literally 5 minutes, postfix says its forwarding mail loop, i was struggling for 2…
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Webserver to send emails from Postfix

I have a problem with my web server sending out email from websites through postfix. I have server that is running Ubuntu 12.04.5 and using Apache webserver. I have installed virtualmin on the server which installed postfix. The web server part is…
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hMailServer and reverse DNS

I have an hMailServer installation on a Windows 2012 server VM and need to properly set up reverse DNS + the mail server in order to avoid getting e-mails bounced back from certain big providers, which started to check this recently. My server…
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Email delivery status

I am trying to track an email. I use mutt so that I can edit the email headers directly before sending, and I added: X-Confirm-Reading-To: me@email Disposition-Notification-To: me@email Return-Receipt-To: me@email to the header of a test email to…
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Exim: convert bounced messages back to original

We have exim4 set up on Debian as a smarthost to send mail via Google's mail servers. We use Google Apps for everything else, so this made sense. Problem is, the password for the smart host account was changed, causing exim to bounce the messages…
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Postfix: find out why mail bounces

My otherwise pretty well working postfix mail server is refusing to deliver a single mail with attachment. Unfortunately i don't have the error message available which was sent to the sender. But here is the relevant part of the log file: (added…
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Postfix on server bouncing emails sent to same domain emails, external domains working

My @example.com email is hosted with Google Apps. I am able to send & receive email to all 4 accounts I have created for @example.com. I also own www.example.com. The issue is not being able to send emails to ones ending with the same domain,…
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Forget forwarded emails delivery errors

I have problem with configuring Sendmail, I've read a lot of topics on the net about similar problems but I didn't found a good answer for this scenario. Main problem is that my server has poor reputation due to tons of "Unknown Users" at…
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SMTP error : Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 At least one FROM header address not allowed to send mail from IP ADDRESS

We are developing an email sending app, and we allow our users to specify the From: header their emails will be sent from. Let's say our domain is mydomain.com and our client domain is clientdomain.com. All emails are sent from our IP addresses with…
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Spam delivered by mx.google.com despite SPF fail

Some spammer use our e-mail address as sender in forged e-mails. Now we got thousands of bounced messages from no longes existing e-mails. We set up SPF and DKIM records but it does not stop. procrastination.com TXT…
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Export or Forward /var/spool/mail/USER (readable for customer)

there are some bounce mails in the /var/spool/mail/USER directory that failed to send. Now the customer receives all of those mails from us because he does not have direct access to them. I can forward one by one with mutt, but there are so many of…
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How to send a large number of emails to a dated list of receipients

One of my clients was to send an email to ~100,000 recipients. The client is a state organization, the emails are not promotional, the recipients are all members of the organization and they are sure that the messages will not be considered spam by…
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Originating (non-critical) emails from a "less-trusted" host

Background We have a webapp running on webapp.example.com that (amongst other things) sends messages by email from time to time. These messages are non-critical: whilst we would like to make a best effort at delivering them, knowledge that message…
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Rejected emails when sending from google apps to some domains (550 Unrouteable address/Sender verify failed)

i'm sending emails from my domain prokubo.com using google apps and i'm having returned emails at least when sendind to two different domains: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: paulo.sousa@centralaccount.pt Technical…
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Returning mails - revDNS + Helo command rejected: Host not found

i've got a VPS server and directadmin with multiple domains on it. I've noticed annoying problem with email sending on one of domains. Sometimes when I send email to client it bounce to me with errors. Usually it is: Helo command rejected: Host…