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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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MTA handling of too large emails

If an MTA receives an email that exceeds the message size limit, which bevaviour is preferred? What is the default for common mail servers? Reject the email during the SMTP session. The delivering MTA must send a bounce message to the original…
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Exchange 2010 "Cannot send on behalf of user"

I am getting a bounceback when sending an email from another account, the error is "You can't send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so. Please make sure you're sending on behalf of the correct sender, or request the…
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Having trouble interpreting mail log DNS errors

I have a postfix mail server on Debian. A client of mine just informed me that they were unable to send an email to me and it appears that there is a problem with their mail server. I would like to get back to them with the actual problem, but I'm…
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Exchange 2010 Mail Contacts get assigned internal SMTP addresses by the recipient policy

This environment has been upgraded from Exchange 2007 to a new Exchange 2010 server. There are several thousand email contacts that reside under the Federation_Contacts OU. Under the Email Addresses tab for each Mail Contact, their correct SMTP…
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Postfix deferred email - How to expire so bounce-back email gets sent back

My hosted email server is "Refusing to talk : 550" with my postfix server. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail all accepts them fine. All of sudden hosted email provider decided not accept email from my server. I dont really know why... i dont send out spam nor…
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451 #4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve

When sending out email to xxx@terremark.com through my own SMTP server (mail.sarit.be), the receiving mail server replies with: 451 #4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve Judging from my postfix log, all of the receiving MX…
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Make Exim send bounces to postmaster instead of the sender, for non-local sender

I have a few e-mail aliases that forward to external hosts. Currently, if the external host rejects a message, Exim generates a bounce message and sends it to the original sender. This is bad because if the external host rejects the message as spam…
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Has anyone setup a temporary webmail server to catch emails during an outage?

I've recently been in a situation where an Exchange email server went down and we weren't able to bring it back online after 48hrs, so some incoming emails bounced. Also, users weren't able to send or receive emails for a few days, which was a sore…
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SPF problems with Google Apps

I currently have an SPF record with a hostname of @ that is: v=spf1 mx ip4:x.x.x.243/32 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all I also have another record of" spf2.0/pra mx ip4:x.x.x.243/32 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com…
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Stop spoof emails in Google Apps

Desperately need some help here. I've been using Google Apps for my domain (2qubed.co.uk) for over 2 years now with no problems at all until recently. For the past few months I have been getting lots of bounced emails from my domain that i never…
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Best practices for mass email platform

I am in the process of setting up mass email service. My question is: what are the best practices to achieve maximum deliver-ability. More precisely - what should I do/know to prevent spam filters from blocking the emails (the emails are not…
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Changing hostname for the purpose of email delivery

I have email delivery issues, and MXtoolbox says "Reverse DNS is not a Valid Hostname". I have A and AAAA records for domain.com and mail.domain.com. The data center has set up reverse DNS to domain.com. I have found this and this thread where users…
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Bounce backs from web-generated e-mails are missing

We use Google Apps to host my company's mail. On our website, we send some e-mails on behalf of our users. In those e-mails we include lines like this: Return-Path: Sender: Sending the messages…
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Is it a DMARC failure if disposition=none & dkim=fail?

When I get one of these DMARC reports from Google is it because there is a problem? Or is it standard protocol. I am curious because I sent one test email and got this DMARC report to abuse@orcaaccounting.com. I just want to make sure everything…
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Message-ID of delivery report is equal to original mail

I discoverd that the delivery status report has the same message-id as the original mail. Here is the text of the delivery report: Incoming DSN message: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: info@foo.de Subject: DELAY: …
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