Deliverability.com: How Email Works...Part Trois

November 11, 2008

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