Domain Email Bounced
For various reasons email servers may reject emails you send.
Domain email bounced. We will automatically select the appropriate bounce domain for each message processing through your server based on the address in the from headers of the email message. When a server rejects and email the system sends you a bounce technically known as a non delivery report. It is not uncommon for a single document to use several of these names.
The email is simply rejected by the recipient s mail server. Possible reasons for a hard bounce could be because the recipient s address no longer exists or the email s domain name no longer exists. Whereas a soft bounce is a bounced email due to a temporary issue hard bounces are bounced emails due to a permanent reason.
A hard bounce happens when the email is permanently rejected because the email address is invalid or the email address doesn t exist. Email bounces when email messages cannot be delivered to an email address. If no match is found then the default custom bounce domain entry will be utilized.
You can add multiple custom bounce domain entries in the socketlabs control panel. This is done to ensure your deliverability and ip reputation are not damaged from repeat sends to addresses where an email bounced back. There are many different possibilities for an email bouncing so as a result a return to sender message is applied also called a smtp reply is sent from the recipient s mail server with a more detailed explanation.
All of these names refer to the email address provided with the mail from command during the smtp session. For you tech geeks take a look at rfc 5321. An email bounce is simply an email that cannot be delivered.
The domain in the from address field of a message must be a parent domain of a provided custom bounce entry. Hard bounced emails are flagged in your mailing list as well as the email unsubscribes list so that you do not send to those emails again when you send to the mailing list again. The email address is invalid typo etc.