As you might recall, the plan to tackle the broad topic of “How Email Works” was to break it down into the following sections:

* How MTAs (Mail/Message Transfer Agents) Communicate
* What is a “Bounce?”
* How MTAs Handle Bounces
* How Bounces Can Affect a Subscriber’s Status

We left off in the series discussing “What is a Bounce?” Today, I wanted to talk briefly (yeah, right!) about how bounces are handled in the underbelly of the Internet…read on

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bit of an old one, someone tweeted it today or yesterday but still useful