What Does Hard Bounce Mean?
A hard bounce is an email message that is returned or bounced back to a sender due to a recipient’s invalid email address and/or domain host details. It is a type of bounced email message that is visible only when a sender provides incorrect or unknown email credentials.
Techopedia Explains Hard Bounce
- A sender incorrectly types a user’s email address.
- A recipient’s email address does not exist on the domain or email server.
- The recipient’s domain does not exist at all (xyz@domain.com).
