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Originally Posted by stuartbe
The message is as good as deleted for the user. If the mail bounces it will usualy go to the domains postmaster account. If its an ISP they will get thousands of these a day due to mistyped address ect, thay are not going to bother informing the sender that the mail has gone walkies !!
If the message is bounced to a company the mail will again go into the postmasters mailbox.
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Not quite right i'm afraid.
Bounces should always go to the originator, any bounce that doesn't do so is incorrectly configured as you can't presume a postmaster account is active or available on every mail server there is.
The reason it looks like the bounce has gone to postmaster is usually because
the postmaster account can be configured (or not) to recieve copies of every NDR (non delivery report) on the domain it serves.
Mis-addressed email should always get an NDR in reply to the originator.
I administer an exchange server and can vouch for the fact that postmaster accounts can be totally flooded.. but, if configured correctly your admins should be able to check it easily, as most of the traffic is caused by NDR reports that are automated and can be filtered out.