# Retrying bounced emails?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrying-bounced-emails/173672
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrying-bounced-emails/173672 "2020-12-18T01:33:46Z")
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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/retrying-bounced-emails/173672/3 "2020-12-18T12:41:11Z")

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I don’t think discourse itself retries to send emails. However, the ESP (e.g. mailgun) may retry sending emails unless a hard-fail is reported by recipient email server. Such bounces can be reported to discourse through their API.

further reading:

> [@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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