Re: Where does email get bounced to?

Using Apache + PHP on linux.
Say I use php to send an email, and that email bounces.

Where does it end up?

Can I force the return address so it would consistently go to a
particular address?

Thanx



To legitimately "bounce", an e-mail must be returned to the sending IP
with a code that says it can't be accepted. That server in turn returns
it to the Sender via the same chain it arrived in.

Accepting an e-mail and THEN bouncing it later is also possible, is
frowned upon, and very often "bounces" the e-mail to an innocent party,
NOT the sender, since it may use the forged envelope information to
determine where to send the bounce TO. This is not a "bounce"; it's a
New Mail being sent out! Since effectively ALL spam has forged headers,
this type of returning mail will always send the bounce to the wrong
person, and innocent party, effectively spamming that person and making
YOU open to spam complaints.

So, when you bounce, to do so correctly, you must do it during the
initial attempt to send you the e-mail and while you are still connected
to the IP; that way the spam/whatever doesn't even traverse the network
when you refuse it.

Feel free to research what I'm telling you with authorative sources; if
you can't find any, let me know and I can set you up but right now I'm
in a hurry.

My 2 ¢



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Where does email get bounced to?
    ... Say I use php to send an email, and that email bounces. ... setup, smarthost and delayed checkups will cause the bounce go back to the reply-to, while in normal cases the bounce will be stored in the inbox of the user who tried to send, in this case the user as whom the Apache is run as. ... there depends a lot on how you have setup your local SMTP and how the remote SMTP is setup to which you are trying to send, but count on that the mail will bounce to the Apache users inbox. ...
    (alt.php)
  • Re: Where does email get bounced to?
    ... Say I use php to send an email, and that email bounces. ... Depends on the receiving server setup. ... existing users lightens the server load (no need to send out bounce ... Spam is seldom actually bounced and should never be bounced. ...
    (alt.php)
  • Re: Where does email get bounced to?
    ... Say I use php to send an email, and that email bounces. ... Depends on the receiving server setup. ... Many SMTP severs out there ... existing users lightens the server load (no need to send out bounce ...
    (alt.php)