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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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What is the behavior difference between return-path, reply-to and from?

On our mailing application we are sending emails with the following header: FROM: marketing@customer.com TO: subscriber1@domain1.example Return-PATH: bouncemgmt@ourcompany.example The problem that we are facing is that some email servers will…
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How to check if an email address is real or valid using PHP

I found some websites that claim to verify if email addresses are valid. Is it possible to check if an email address is valid using just PHP?
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Set email headers so bounced emails go to a specific address

From our rails app we send out some system-generated emails with the 'from' address set to noreply@ourdomain.com. If these bounce they get sent back to this address by our mail server. However, what i'd like to do is to not have bounced emails get…
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Bounce Email handling with PHP?

Here is my scenario: I have 2 email accounts: admin@domain.com and bounce@domain.com. I want to send email to all my users with admin@domain.com but then "reply to" bounce@domain.com (until here, my PHP script can handle it). When, the email can't…
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Bounced mail Handling in PHP - Any up-to-date solutions?

I need to do some bounced mail processing using PHP. Going through the e-mails is no problem, but investing the resources in writing our own library to parse the bounced e-mails is very undesirable. There are 3 PHP solutions that I've found that…
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send e-mail and check status

Using Java mail, I would like to send an e-mail and check the status. Possible statuses include: Hard-bounce: No mail server found Soft-bounce: Mail server found, but account not found Success Is it even possible to send an e-mail and get some…
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Detecting bounced messages by Return-Path header

some time ago I saw a question about detecting bounced messages: I am working on a tool that will be sending bulk messages (not spam :) and I need to add a feature that will detect bounced messages. Is there a standard response associated with…
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Automatically processing the Amazon SES notifications for bounce and complaint notifications

We are using AWS SES for sending mails. Amazon SES sends bounce and complaint notifications through emails or AWS SNS. We would like to automatically process the bounce and complaint notifications (coming from email or AWS SNS) to extract the email…
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How can the Return-Path header be different than the actual email bounce recipient?

I recently moved my transactional email sending to Mailgun It works good so far however I am wondering about the return-path header. Consider this email (I removed irrelevant header and replaced email/domain for privacy purposes) Delivered-To:…
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Receive bounced emails using Nodemailer

I am new to the SMTP related concepts. I am currently developing a nodejs email client using Nodemailer. In which, I am unable to receive the bounce back emails (NDRs). My queries below, To achieve this should I configure DSN or envelope? I think…
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Automatically check bounced emails via POP3?

Can anyone recommend software or a .NET library that will check for bounced emails and the reason for the bounce? I get bounced emails into a pop3 account that I can read then. I need it to keep my user database clean from invalid email addresses…
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I am using Amazon SES. How will I track the bounce email messages using PHP?

I am using Amazon SES service. But I couldn't understand how will I track the bounce email messages using PHP and keep store those email logs in database. I have a reference link of Amazon blog, but the solution given there is on…
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Possible to get a report of email addresses that bounced from Amazon SES?

While the SES dashboard shows aggregated statistics about the bounce rate of emails sent through the service, I do not see a way of retrieving the individual addresses that bounced. Is this possible? Our situation is that the 'from' address we had…
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Explaining VERP

I am in the middle of making a bounce detection program, that reads bounce mails. Our setup is that we are sending out emails, adding a noreply@domain.tl to the sent mails. Some of the recipients does not exist anymore and therefor we want to read…
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How to receive bounced mail using AWS SES With Postfix

I have configured postfix to relay mail to Amazon SES by following their integration guide and sending email is working without issue. However, I recently wrote a PHP application using a framework which produced a malformed email message. SES…
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