What's the difference between hard bounces and soft bounces?
A hard bounce is a permanent failure. The address does not exist or the domain is gone. It will never succeed regardless of retries.
A soft bounce is a temporary failure. The mailbox might be full, the server might be overloaded, or the connection might be rate limited.
Hard bounces are final. Soft bounces are signals to retry.
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