phpbb mass email

where do the bounces go?

[mn1dbp]

I recently sent out my first mass email to people registered on my forum.

What i want to know is where (or to what address) do the bounce back emails come to?

I ask this because i know for a fact that several emails are spelt incorrectly but i have not received any bounces yet.

I want these bounces so i can check that users get the messages that i send.

[mn1dbp]

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I searched Google again and of course this thread wa s top of the search!

You would think they would go to the admin email but i have not received any.

Will it make any difference if i use SMTP address in phpBB rather than local mail function?

[rogerd]

They may be bouncing back to a non-existent address. Not everyone wants to see their bounces, though it's a good tool to keep the member list clean. Do you have a "catch-all" address for the domain (where mail to nonexistent users goes)?

[RailMan]

send yourself an email from phpbb and check the headers - look for the from and reply-to and make sure you receive email on those addresses.

you might find the emails don't get sent at all. i've written php code to send emails (following sales etc) and i've noticed that my code won't send emails to invalid email addresses. i don't know if that's something php does or something to do with the way i wrote the code - and i don't really care either because it works perfectly for what i need and i don't get bounces!