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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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Understanding the many "FROM" addresses that apply to SenderID, DKIM, and SPF

Can someone tell me when and why a client, MTA relay, Unix .Forward, anonymous relay, or listserver will create, or alter these headers: Resent-Sender: Resent-From: Sender: From: If you can please include a software version, or an example of…
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Drop all emails that aren't forwarded by postfix

I'm setting up a forwarding only email server. I want to apply some static forwarding rules to all incoming emails and bounce all other incoming emails (and not store them locally). /etc/postfix/main.cf myhostname = sputnik.*domain*.com smtpd_banner…
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Dreamhost email sending issues

This has happened from time to time in the past with the emails showing up eventually hours to days later, however I sent some emails last week with a true result to Gmail and they still haven't arrived. I've checked both the inbox and the spam…
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Example smtp dsn bounce messages for testing

I'm working on building a feature for a larger system that will be able to parse and react to dsn bounce messages received from all different types of smtp servers. It be great to test the code I write by reading a bunch of txt files containing…
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Gmail delivery sometimes fails to domain1 but never to domain2, both domains have the same MX, etc

Lets say we have 2 domains, domain1.co.za and domain2.co.za. Both point to the same MX records with the same priority, mx1.isp.co.za and mx2.isp.co.za, both of which send the mail through our ISP's filtering/scanning service. From there, mail for…
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How do I configure my domain and web application so the emails send from the latter are not blocked as spam?

I have a WordPress site that needs to send notifications to an email address. I would like the from field from this emails to be an address on my client's domain. I dont know much about email security and antispam systems, but I guess that we would…
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Auto email from IP is bouncing back

I'm working on an e-commerce website based on ASP Vb. which has auto email(HTML) after people placing order, requesting forgotten password, etc. MY problem is after email has sent, basically I get bounce back almost from most email careers but…
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Postfix - don't generate "unknown user" bounces if message is Spam

We receive a a lot of spam addressed to (random) non-existing users. This causes postfix to generate "unknown user" bounces to the fake sender. As a workaround I use a catch-all to redirect any mail to myself and manually forward mail in cause of…
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How long mail server tries to deliver email to recipient?

I would like to create a list of default times that mail server will try to deliver email to other email server before it sends information Unable to deliver back to sender (I mean temporary errors here like network down, server down, no connection,…
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Trying to set up a catch all e-mail in Exchange 2010

We're looking to set up an e-mail sub-domain for a project, and we need to set up a catch-all e-mail address, so whether people send project updates to project1234, or project4321, it will redirect to the one existing e-mail account. I've set up…
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Cannot recieve incoming email on recently transferred domain - all MX records updated and have proper status

Domain Name: digiwhirl.com Edition: Free edition Affected Username/s: N/A Issue Description: Cannot recieve incoming email on recently transferred domain - all MX records updated and have proper status Steps to Reproduce (if applicable): Email…
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Is it possible to check the Apache user's mail?

I'm trying to debug a problem with sending mail on a Red Hat/Apache server. When I send email from the command line using sendmail -t, I get bounce-back emails with messages like this: The original message was received at Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:24:56…
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Email bouncing because IP name lookup failed, but I can see rDNS

I am seeing a lot of email bouncing from my server... the bounce messages indicate that the IP does not have reverse DNS set up, but I can see valid rDNS records when I query it on my local machine. I know I set the rDNS records at least four days…
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Email bouces to tell me it was delivered?

I get this back after sending an email. It says "Your message was successfully delivered", then why do I even get this? Or this phrase referes to something else? Reporting-MTA: dns; gmmr6.centrum.cz X-Postfix-Queue-ID: CDBBB8016CE1 X-Postfix-Sender:…
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How to disable all bounce back email in exim 4.69

I have set up an email server to send out solicited newsletters. There should be no "regular" users of this server, so it is not desirable to send bounce notifications back to the recipient. Especially so since I am tracking bounces myself by…
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