man > bounce(5)

📛 NAME

bounce - Postfix delivery status reports

🚀 Quick Reference

Use CaseCommand/ConfigurationDescription
Set bounce notice recipientbounce_notice_recipient = postmasterAddress to receive postmaster notifications about undelivered mail
Enable threaded bouncesenable_threaded_bounces = yesLink bounce notifications to original message via References/In-Reply-To headers
Limit bounce message sizebounce_size_limit = 50000Max original message text included in non-delivery notification
View bounce log filesls /var/spool/postfix/bounce/List per-message delivery status records
Reload Postfix after config changespostfix reloadApply changes to bounce daemon without restarting
Set bounce template filebounce_template_file = /etc/postfix/bounce.cfCustomize bounce message templates

📋 SYNOPSIS

bounce [generic Postfix daemon options]

📖 DESCRIPTION

The bounce(8) daemon maintains per-message log files with delivery status information. Each log file is named after the queue file that it corresponds to, and is kept in a queue subdirectory named after the service name in the master.cf file (either bounce, defer or trace). This program expects to be run from the master(8) process manager.

The bounce(8) daemon processes two types of service requests:

The software does a best notification effort. A non-delivery notification is sent even when the log file or the original message cannot be read.

Optionally, a bounce (defer, trace) client can request that the per-message log file be deleted when the requested operation fails. This is used by clients that cannot retry transactions by themselves, and that depend on retry logic in their own client.

📜 STANDARDS

🔍 DIAGNOSTICS

Problems and transactions are logged to syslogd(8) or postlogd(8).

⚙️ CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

Changes to main.cf are picked up automatically, as bounce(8) processes run for only a limited amount of time. Use the command "postfix reload" to speed up a change.

The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.

Available in Postfix 3.0 and later:

Available in Postfix 3.3 and later:

Available in Postfix 3.6 and later:

📁 FILES

📚 SEE ALSO

📄 LICENSE

The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

✍️ AUTHOR(S)

Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

Wietse Venema
Google, Inc.
111 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10011, USA

bounce(5)
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