What is a bounced email?

[Android Central Question]

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This is one of the emails

 

[belodion]

One not delivered.
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[ManiacJoe]

Bounced emails are emails that are returned to the "sender" because the email cannot be delivered. The two most common delivery failures are (1) the user does not exist, and (2) the user's inbox is full.

Usually, by the time the receiver's mail server realizes that the email is not deliverable, the connection to the real sender's server has already been dropped. This results in the email being bounced back to the user listed in the "from" line. Spammers always put someone else's name in that field because they don't want the bounced emails coming back to themselves.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Another possibility is that the email server for the recipient's email was temporarily unavailable, so it's worth resending to see if the same thing happens again.

 

[me just saying]

there are also anti-spam utilities out that can be set up to bounce (return to sender) known spammers emails. I used to use one years ago but quit when spammers started spoofing email addresses.