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phpmailer un-delivered emails?


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Users of our websites leave us their email addresses for us to reply to.  Sometimes they make mistakes in their email addresses that our email address checks cannot determine ( bad spelling etc ).

I am using Phpmailer but when I send an email that cannot be delivered ( because of an invalid email address) I do not get a delivery failed message?

When sending emails with PhpMailer is there a specific address to catch undelivered mails?

Where should I expect to see an undeliverable mail message?

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Your assuming that it's undelivered, whereas infact it's just not recieved by the person it's intended for. If you mistype [email protected] as [email protected] it's highly likely it'll be a valid e-mail address. Because of the amount of spam about, alot of servers don't bother sending a message back saying it's failed, they just recieve it and throw it away.

Good point "cags".  However from time to time when I make a simple (typing/transposition?) mistake in the address in sending an email, using say outlook, I do get some responses saying message undeliverable.  If an email was undeliverable would Phpmailer attempt to send such an undeliverable report?

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