Variable envelope return path (VERP) is a technique to enable automatic detection of undeliverable e-mail addresses when sending email to multiple recipients. It works by using a different return path (also called "envelope sender") for each recipient of a message.
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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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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 do I get a Plesk 11 server to accept email to addresses with delimiter (VERP)?
What I Want
We send out bulk renewal notices via email and it would be ideal if we could link any bounce messages with the corresponding record in our database. I recently learned about VERP (wiki) and thought that would be the perfect solution for…
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Sending email with a custom envelope sender (VERP)
I'm writing a server that will send email to many recipients on behalf of my client.
The email must come from the client's email address (client@example.org), but I want to automatically handle bounces via VERP. Basically, the email From: header…
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Capturing bounces to a no-reply email address
I'm trying to figure out how to best implement a bounce capture from a situation where the sending mail box is a no-reply. Here's the situation.
We send out confirmation emails to users for bookings they have made on our system. We never want the…
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Send VERP compliant email using python and postfix
I want to be able to send emails in python so that I can parse bounces. VERP seems to be the solution to this. However I don't receive the bounce notification when I set my from address (not the MIMEMultipart object's "From" value) to include the…
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VERP with JavaMail and Postfix, How To?
First of all, Greetings!
I am about to Develop a a custom newsletter application in Java using the Javax.mail API.
So I need to Develop a Verp technique in order to track bounces.
So far I have Override the javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage Just to…
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Catch email bounce
I will be sending legitimate emails to a list of recipients and some of them are probably obsolete by now.
I wish to know, based on the email bounces, which are obsolete and delete them from the database. Except VERP I haven't seen anything…
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Problems understanding current Bounced Emails handling + VERP
I'm giving support to a production application which is already able to send emails and also to read bounced emails.
When the applications needs to send an email it fetches DNS MX records from myemaildomain.com, currently that dnslookup resolves to…
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How to handle mailer daemon responses with JavaMail API and exchange server?
We have a mailing service, where we send notifications to users. But when a user's email is invalid , the the server responds with a mailer daemon response or bounce mail. I want to catch these responses and log them into a database.
Is this…
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VERP and perl postfix not working
So I have a script that I'm trying to get VERP running correctly on. It's using MIME::Lite and postfix as the mail server. Here is the code:
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
use LWP::Simple;
use Mail::Verp;
my $email =…
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