Re: Where does email get bounced to?
- From: "Twayne" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:59:52 GMT
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
Spam is seldom actually bounced and should never be bounced. Depending
on the ISP, it may get a spam indicator added to the subject line, or
the client might just get a message that a spam was not delivered and to
see it, follow their instructions, or it'll come with a spam score and
many other things. Bouncing a spam is no good because it won't go to
the Sender, which is ALWAYS by definition, where a "bounce" goes to,
since that information in the mail envelope will be forged and contains
an innocent party's name, usually one of the people on the spammed list.
So any bounces would go to that innocent party, which sort of mails
these days are reportable in and of themselves as spam, meaning the
innocent party can then report the bouncing ISP for spamming.
.
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