bounce message
AUTOMATED MESSAGE FROM AN EMAIL SYSTEM
Soft bounce; Non-delivery report; Bounced e-mail; Delivery Status Notification; Mailer-Daemon; Mailer Daemon; Mailer-daemon; Mail bounce; Non delivery report
A notification message returned to the sender by a site unable
to relay
e-mail to the intended recipient or the next link
in a
bang path. Reasons might include a nonexistent or
misspelled user name or a
down relay site. Bounce messages
can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly results; see
sorcerer's apprentice mode and
software laser. The terms
"bounce mail" and "barfmail" are also common.
[
Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)