Why are temporary failures different from hard bounces?
Temporary failures such as four xx responses represent short term issues such as mailbox storage, server rate limits, or greylisting. Hard bounces such as five xx responses indicate that the mailbox does not exist. Temporary signals should not be treated as permanent failures.
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