// DELIVERABILITY

Soft bounce

A soft bounce is a temporary delivery failure caused by full inboxes, server outages, or greylisting.

// IN PRACTICE

Soft bounces self-resolve. Retry sparingly — repeated retries to the same address can signal abuse.

// RELATED TERMS

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