# Email suppression list handling

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-suppression-list-handling/160821
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-suppression-list-handling/160821 "2020-08-14T04:42:27Z")
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### Author: ![jeffbyrnes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jeffbyrnes/32/121097_2.png) [@jeffbyrnes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jeffbyrnes)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-suppression-list-handling/160821/3 "2020-08-14T18:49:26Z")

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While I appreciate the link to my message, I updated @zogstrip’s original, and it _should_ be accurate:

> [@Configure VERP to handle bouncing e-mails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bouncing-e-mails/45343):
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> Setting up bounces handling Discourse uses the [Variable envelope return path (VERP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path) technique to handle bouncing e-mails. To enable VERP, set the “reply by email address” site setting with an email address template that uses the + sign. The default of replies+%{reply\_key}@discourse.example.com … works fine. If you are using your own or your company’s email server, then, that’s it tada Your discourse instance must be able to receive email sent to this address. This should work via POP, bu…

@Paul_King, I hope this helps!

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