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vBMail is not only a powerful Mailing List manager, it can also handle Bounced Mail not only from itself but also from vBulletin.

Primarily, it's intended to be used as a way of sending newsletters to your members. To this end, you need to set up your first Mailing List.
Configuring Mailing Lists

1. Ensure your Administrator account either has "Can Administer vBMail" or is set up as Super Administrator in config.php
2. Under the DBTech - vBMail AdminCP menu group, click Manage Mailing Lists
3. Click Add New Mailing List
4. Configure Mailing List Permissions for each of your usergroups to ensure they're set up like you need

You will now see a new Mailing List in the front-end, with all the users belonging to your "Default Subscribed" chosen groups already subscribed.


You can also use vBMail as a Bounced Mail handler. This will let you ensure that people whose emails bounce will be notified of the fact, so they can change their email address.
Bounced Mail Handler

1. Create a dedicated bounced mail handler email address on your server, like bounce@yourdomain.com
2. Under the Settings AdminCP menu group, click Options, then Email Options
3. For Bounce Email Address enter the email address created in step 1
4. Under the Settings AdminCP menu group, click Options, then DragonByte Tech: vBMail - Bounced Mail Settings
5. For Enable Bounced Mail Handling turn it to Yes
6. For Bounced Mail Handling Type, use Manual if you want to ensure you can manually edit any unknown mails to your Bounced Mail Handler email.
7. Ensure you fill out the IMAP settings correctly
8. Under the Scheduled Task Manager AdminCP menu group, click Scheduled Tasks
9. Manually run DragonByte Tech: vBMail - Collect Bounced Mail - this will tell you of any misconfigurations in your IMAP settings

You now have Bounced Mail handling, with limited support for non-vBMail emails. It will attempt to auto-identify the originating email, but may not always succeed depending on server setup. The Manual setting in step 6 will ensure vBMail doesn't discard these emails.


If you want to review bounced emails, you can do so from the AdminCP
Reviewing Bounced Mail

1. Under the DBTech - vBMail AdminCP menu group, click Bounced Mail List
2. Use the search interface to find the emails you're interested in - Unknown mail are emails vBMail couldn't detect who they bounced from.

Hopefully these guides helped some of you out, feel free to post a "How do I?" question in the support forums if you have any further questions

As always, thank you for your continued support

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