On Dec 18, 2007 10:40 AM, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Heyes wrote:
> > Daniel Brown wrote:
> >> On Dec 18, 2007 10:17 AM, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Emails that bounce get sent back to the address in the Return-Path:
> >>> header. Correct?
> >>
> >> Yes, sir.
> >
> > Thanks. Is there usually a delay? Eg the mail server tries again after 4
> > hours.
>
> Depends on the nature of the failure. Some will cause a bounce to be
> generated immediately. Others will cause delivery to be retried
> periodically for a while and then generate a bounce. Some mail servers
> generate delivery delay warnings (usually after 4 hours).
It should also be mentioned that it's a user-configurable
parameter, at the admin's discretion. You could have a bounce retry
in as little as a minute, with (as far as I know) no maximum delay.
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