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A bounce address is an email address to which bounce messages are delivered. There are many variants of the name, none of them used universally, including return path, reverse path, envelope from, envelope sender, MAIL FROM, 5321-FROM, return address, From_, Errors-to, etc. It is not uncommon for a single document to use several of these names.
In computing, Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) is a method, defined in an Internet Draft, for determining whether the bounce address specified in an E-mail message is valid. It is designed to reject backscatter , that is, bounce messages to forged return addresses.
Backscatter (also known as outscatter, misdirected bounces, blowback or collateral spam) is incorrectly automated bounce messages sent by mail servers, typically as a side effect of incoming spam. Recipients of such messages see them as a form of unsolicited bulk email or spam, because they were not solicited by the recipients.
The most common reason for a failed delivery is that the email address entered isn't valid. If the delivery failure message says the account doesn't exist double check the spelling of the address you entered. A single misplaced letter could cause a delivery failure.
The hard part of bounce handling is matching up a bounce message with the undeliverable address that caused the bounce. If the mailing list software can see that a bounce resulted from an attempt to send a message to user@example.com , then it doesn't need to understand the rest of the information in the bounce.
Bounce messages in SMTP are sent with the envelope sender address <>, known as the null sender address. They are frequently sent with a From: header address of MAILER-DAEMON at the recipient site. Typically, a bounce message will contain several pieces of information to help the original sender in understanding the reason their message was not ...
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BATV (and similar systems) are intended to try to filter out backscatter. However, when legitimate email gets sent with a null return address, it will look like backscatter. If the BATV enabled MTA rejects the email because it has a null return address but does not have BATV tags in the RCTP TO address, the you will get a false positive.