I’m a little confused about VERP and handing email bounces. I’m using Sendgrid and it all works well, but doing a little reading, it sounds like I need to set up webhooks on Sendgrid (easy enough) to inform Discourse about bounce issues. If this is the case, how do I feed the Sendgrid webhooks int…

This is explained in the setup guide: [image] Configure VERP to handle bouncing e-mails Log in to SendGrid and go to Mail Settings expand the Event Webhook setting and enable it if it isn’t already click edit to set the HTTP POST URL to http://your.discourse/webhooks/sendgrid make sure you sel…

[image] Richard - Communiteq: This is explained in the setup guide: Thanks for that Richard! Another question - if I’m using say, SMTP2GO instead of Sendgrid, or some other transactional email provider that isn’t MailGun/Sendgrid/etc - does the webhook still apply? e.g: http://your.discours…

No, this only works for those providers that are explicitly mentioned in the documentation.

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) May 20, 2023, 4:36am 2

This is explained in the setup guide:

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