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hard bounce

When e-mailing, hard bounce is used to describe an e-mail that has bounced back to the sender undelivered without having been accepted by the recipient's mail server.

Compare with soft bounce.

Also see Why E-Mails Bounce in the Did You Know section of Webopedia.



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