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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Oliver,

These bounce types refer to RFC 1893 that classifies SMTP error 
messages. When it was able to find out the bounce error type, Sympa 
(actually bounced.pl) stores it in the user entry.

Basically, temporary error could be a "mailbox full", permanent error 
could be "user unknown".
"empty" means that Sympa did not guess the error reason...

address@concealed wrote:

> maybe someone can explain me the difference between the types of bounces 
> displayed in web interface.
>
> <empty> <- what type this should be?
> temporary
> permanent
>
> e.g. we have an email address, which is valid, but get an
> type 'permanent' after 1 bounce and another email address
> which get no bounce type after 1 bounce. But both email 
> addresses exists and are valid.
>  
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites