Hi, I’ve followed your guide on migrating to mailgun but I’m having some issues with the bounce score - it’s not getting updated when email sending fails. I can see the bounces in mailgun, but when checking the email in my discourse instance, the bounce score is 0. Are there any extra settings I…

That’s because mailgun is overwriting our VERP and is the only one to receive the bounce notification. The only solution is to add support for their bounces webhook .

@zogstrip I see. Quickly checking the docs I’ve seen this You can specify a webhook URL in the ‘Webhooks’ tab of your Control Panel. If you do, every time a message experiences a hard bounce, your URL will be invoked with the following parameters Would you have an example of an url I should pro…

[imagem] pixelsoffreedom: Should I raise a feature request? I’m doing some research to figure out how easy (or hard) it would be to do it for the most popular mail services out there :wink:

@zogstrip any news? :slight_smile:

Forgot to update this topic, but already added support for mailgun https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/116efffdaad04ca4357fffa827ef236f93454378 Others are coming :wink:

Sendgrid is now in :wink: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9704603fab07052c06b3f8e47b13ea7fa7a9ed1e

Mailjet is now in :mailbox_closed: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fe595f1653d4441cf4504615c76a04cbcb6c00e9

I’ve set up bounce handling through VERP on Amazon SES. Bounces are detected properly, but users’ bounce scores don’t get updated past ‘2’. Here’s an example of a user who has had numerous bounces: [0%202018-05-08%2008-49-47] I’m using the system default bounce settings: [image] I’d expect him…

Related: I’m also still trying to understand when a user will be deactivated: [imagem] What does 'revoke email' action mean in Logs? Support I’m a bit confused about how this works; as I understand it, with the default settings a user will not receive any…

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Related: I’m also still trying to understand when a user will be deactivated:

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