Re: Where does email get bounced to?

On Apr 26, 7:17 pm, Preventer of Work <not_t...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Say I use php to send an email, and that email bounces.

Where does it end up?

Depends on the receiving server setup. Many SMTP severs out there
don't
bounce anymore. Simply ignoring and deleting e-mail addressed to non-
existing users lightens the server load (no need to send out bounce
messages) and indirectly helps to manage spam (spammers don't get to
know whether they've guessed a particular address correctly).

Cheers,
NC

I don't know where you get your information, but that's not very
prevalent. In fact, it's almost non existant.
Something most clients won't stand for happening more than once is a
dropped good mail that never gets to the recipient. There is no "server
load" to minimze, and spammers could care less to "know" whether their
messages get delivered or not as long as they went out. Spammers
misdirect, hide and otherwise forge their spams so that the spammer
never sees a single thing about whether a message got through or not.
Spam detectors are notoriously inaccurate and often tag good mail as
spam. The hundreds, thousands of blocklists and blacklists used by
server admins catches and tags a LOT more spams than the entire no. of
those that simply drop the mail as you think happens.
Reputable, RFC compliant web sites just do not do that. Now a
spammer's servers or spam friendly servers, well ... .


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