Service for testing bounced email handling

Question

I\'m sure this must exist, but I can\'t find anything anywhere that does this. What I want is some online service that provides an email address I can send an email to, and

Answer 1

I use bounce@simulator.amazonses.com for AWS SES.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox-simulator.html

From the above page:

"You can only access the mailbox simulator by using Amazon SES. You cannot access it from an external mail server."

Answer 2

It's worth noting that bounce@gmail.com bounces, with a 'no such user'. To verify (even though the likelyhood was low), I attempted to create an account in gmail as bounce@gmail.com, and it failed stating it was already taken. So clearly google has reserved the address, and the only use it could possibly have is to generate bounces.

Even though - as of 07mar2019 - the bouncetest@tribulant.com still works, bounce@gmail.com is also a fair alternative.

Curiously, bouncetest@gmail.com....gets delivered. Whether there's a human on the other end is a question yet to be answered...

Answer 3

We have a bounce test email which we recommend to our customers and anyone is free to use it.

It just replies back:

:fail: No such person at this address.

The email is: bouncetest@tribulant.com

We have it listed in our documentation for our newsletter plugin for WordPress: http://tribulant.com/docs/wordpress-mailing-list-plugin/382#doc1

Hopefully someone will find this useful since there doesn't seem to be any easy way of testing bounces like this specifically.

Answer 4

http://www.socketlabs.com/blog/bounce-and-feedback-loop-test-addresses/

bounce-test@service.socketlabs.com

Answer 5

Since the Socketlabs service is no longer active and the SES simulator is only for sending from local SES accounts, I ended up having to use my own domains hosted at either Google Apps or cheap shared (CPanel) hosting:

1. For soft bounces, set up an email account and set it to suspended.
2. For hard bounces, send email to an invalid address (and make sure you don't have catch-all turned on)

Answer 6

I work over at SocketLabs. First, I apologize that we are seeing this message so late. I just wanted to stop in and provide some follow-up on this issue for anyone who is still interested.

The SocketLabs bounce email address is working. I tested it on Friday, September 23, 2016 and successfully received a bounced message.

The address is bounce-test@service.socketlabs.com

I would suggest trying again. Or contacting support. Our support team is very responsive and friendly. Here's a link to reach the support staff. https://support.socketlabs.com/