hard and soft bounce?

EliteTrader · 07-19-2010, 08:21 PM

hey friends!
Can anyone provide me with the main difference between hard and soft bounce?
i have searched a bit on the subject but got more confused

dave · 07-20-2010, 10:18 PM

Sounds like a hard bounce is the email no longer being active, a soft bounce is a temporary error.

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rahinajoseph · 07-21-2010, 05:56 AM

Hi..
Simply put, a bounce is a notice from the receiving ISP or domain that the email you attempted to send has not been delivered.soft bounce indicates that the condition is probably temporary.You may encounter a soft bounce when a customer's mailbox is full due to vacation or even when a domain is temporarily not accepting mail because of technical problems. A soft bounce is telling you the email address is probably good but that delivery can't be completed right now. You should try sending again at a later date. But don't assume the opposite is true with a hard bounce. A hard bounce does not automatically signify a bad (undeliverable) record that shouldn't be attempted again later on. Unlike the postal world where returned mail clearly equates to an undeliverable address, such as 'moved, left no forwarding address,' a hard bounce in email can mean many things.

harjos · 07-21-2010, 08:00 AM

A soft bounce is an email message that gets as far as the recipient's mail server (it recognizes the address) but is bounced back undelivered before it gets to the intended recipient. A soft bounce might occur because the recipient's mailbox is full, the server is down or swamped with messages, or the message is too large.

A hard bounce is an email message that has been returned to the sender and is permanently undeliverable. Causes include invalid addresses (domain name doesn't exist, typos, changed address, etc.) or the email recipient's mail server has blocked your server. Servers can sometimes interpret bounces differently, meaning a soft bounce on one server may be classified as a hard bounce on another.

EliteTrader · 07-21-2010, 11:25 AM

Thanks much guys.....it helped me a great deal....Im grateful to you all

seongpinas316 · 08-08-2010, 02:30 PM

Thanks also for providing definitions I don't also know the difference of these two.

MEMA · 08-10-2010, 05:48 PM

Soft Bounces: Usually, it is blocked just a few hours.
Hard Bounces: In reality, this is not permanently but blocked during one week.