Bounces and Deferrals - ProofPoint

Bounces and Deferrals Troubleshooting:

Delivered: Messages that are sent through Proofpoint Essentials platform and are delivered.

Quarantined: Message that are quarantined by one of the filters on the platform.

• These messages can be released from Quarantine

Blocked: Message that are blocked because of a virus or executable file. 

• Messages that are blocked are not allowed to be released.

Deferred: Message could not be delivered to the client’s/recipients server.

• Messages will be re-tried up to 30 days. These emails will be automatically retried once every 5min, 15min, 30min and 1 hour after that for the next 30 days.
• These errors are temporary and normally result in 400 error codes.

Bounced: Messages did not get delivered to the Recipient/customers server.

• Messages get sent a Non-Delivery Report (NDR).
• These are what we call a “hard bounce” normally 500 error codes.
• These messages will need to be resent. 

Queued: This is a placeholder for our back-end logs to update the Front-end UI logs. This normally doesn’t indicate whether the message was delivered or not. If you want to know the true status please contact support.

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