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jeffbeeyesterday at 10:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

I would simply like to point out that 550 at SMTP time is not a bounce.


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doubled112yesterday at 11:04 PM

You get an email bounce back with an error code in it. Is there some other definition I'm unaware of?

Wait, that is probably from the local mailer, and otherwise the sender may never know about the rejected messages.

b112yesterday at 11:59 PM

5xx are bounces, a perm failure. 4xx error codes are temp (retry) errors.

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