# Mailgun "temporarily disabled due to high bounce rate"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailgun-temporarily-disabled-due-to-high-bounce-rate/88811
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [31.Май.2018 06:54:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailgun-temporarily-disabled-due-to-high-bounce-rate/88811 "2018-05-31T06:54:47Z")
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### Author: ![Cameron\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cameron_d/32/97535_2.png) [@Cameron\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cameron_D)
#### Post date: [31.Май.2018 08:16:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailgun-temporarily-disabled-due-to-high-bounce-rate/88811/8 "2018-05-31T08:16:25Z")

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And set up Discourse to handle the bounces from Mailgun so it’ll stop sending them in the first place.

> [@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…

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