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A bounce message indicates that the email could not be delivered successfully. Usually libraries for sending email allow to set a separate bounce address which receives the bounced messages.

In the Internet's standard e-mail protocol SMTP, a bounce message, also called a Non-Delivery Report/Receipt (NDR), a (failed) Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message, a Non-Delivery Notification (NDN) or simply a bounce, is an automated electronic mail message from a mail system informing the sender of another message about a delivery problem. The original message is said to have bounced.

See Wikipedia for details.

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How to implement Sender ID when sending mails through C#?

I just heard Joel & Jeff talk about Sender ID in their podcast number 83, and it occurred to me that's just what I need for a site I'm working on. Approximately 90% of all e-mails sent from the server is bounced or similar, likely because the server…
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AWS SES - Bounces Not Being Delivered To ReturnPath Address

I just wrote my first application using the AWS SDK for .Net to send ~7500 emails via SES with the following code: AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient client = new AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient("awsKey", "awsSecret"); SendEmailRequest req = new…
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Does Gmail not allow sender to set a return path value to receive bounce messages?

I am using Swift Mailer to check for bounced messages. I have created one separate account for bounce messages, however when I set the return path, it does not allow the bounce message send to that account. Is it normal or is it a code error? $verp…
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Setting the Bounce Address in Apache Commons Mail

Using the Apache Commons to send email there is the following code. HtmlEmail email = new HtmlEmail(); email.setHostName(SMTP_HOST_NAME); email.setSmtpPort(587); email.setAuthenticator(new DefaultAuthenticator(SMTP_AUTH_USER,…
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imap_num_msg returning less count than actual emails in the inbox with pop protocol

I am trying to process the bounced emails in phplist using a gmail's email as the bounce back address. When I tried to process bounces, I got stucked in the similar scenario as mentioned in this Post - There are 250 bounces to process. Phplist was…
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Dealing With Mandrill Soft Bounces

I use the Mandrill API to get the rejection list, and currently for entries where they are marked as hard-bounce, spam or unsub I remove them from my mailing list so that I will not attempt to send to them any more. However, I am not sure how to…
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How to get bounce emails from SparkPost without using webhooks?

We are working at the integration of our email application with SparkPost. The only issue we have is getting bounce emails from SparkPost to exclude them from future mailings. Our application retrieves bounce emails directly from the mail server.…
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AWS SES is treating vacation responder as bounce

We use aws server and our application sends emails to customers via Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES). When recipients turn on vacation responder, SES treats them as bounces and blocks that email id after few sends. Is this a standard problem of…
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postfix forwarding mails getting bounced back to original sender

I am using postfix as mail server for "myDomain.com". Further I have installed a forwarding service to gmail. That works fine so far. But when someone sends me an e-mail with e.g. an executable, gmail bounces the mail. This notification mail from…
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Best practices for resending to hard bounced emails after X days

If I see an email returned due to a hard bounce, after how many days is it acceptable to resend to that email address. It is possible for emails to be reactivated or for temporary outages, so it doesn't make sense to keep an email in my hard bounce…
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Bounced email parsing

I'm currently having a mess about with catching, parsing and sorting bounced emails. I have the basics set up nicely and it does what I want, which is nice... problem being is that there seems to be no standard to the messages returned in the…
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How to Bounce E-mail Back with PHP

I am piping all e-mails through a PHP script that checks the To address against a database of valid addresses. If it exists, the rest of the script handles it. However, if it does not exist, how can I bounce the e-mail, the same way the server would…
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How to check for bounced emails in rails?

I'm currently creating an email app that is able to send emails to many users. However, I want to know whether there are bounced emails. I'm currently using Amazon SES to notify me if the email is bounced. However, I want the bounced email's data to…
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Controlling where "out of office" replies are sent

How do mail servers decide when and where to send "out of office"-type autoreplies? It seems this is mail server dependent, so some will use a reply-to: address, others the From: and perhaps the Sender: address. Some servers (or all?) seem to care…
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Custom Header Information in Postfix Bounce Header

I am trying to keep the custom header information in a bounce message. I am using postfix 3.4.14 If the message is send to the original destination, the custom header is complete: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition:…
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