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

Anything "bounced" goes back to the Sender's information in the mail's
envelope headers, though they may be forged.


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