What types of mail messages show up in the Bounce Management Section?
A The messages that show up in the Bounce Management section are messages sent back to you from spammers who send email spoofed (i.e. forged) as if it came FROM you – not FROM them. When the spam is sent to an email address out on the Internet that doesn’t exist, an email bounce will go back to YOU, not back to the spammer. This is called “backscatter”. This page describes exactly how this happens: http://www.commnet.edu/it/security/email-spoofed.asp Obviously you can ignore these emails, but if you see an email in the bounce management section that appears legitimate, you can release it using the release button. This feature is very effective in reducing these bounces from going to your inbox as it is possible for spammers to send out hundreds if not thousands of emails with spoofed “from” addresses. That means you could be inundated with these bounces back to your inbox and you’d have to manually delete them if this feature was not in place. This section would capture all those email
