Service for testing bounced email handling

I use [email protected] for AWS SES.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox-simulator.html

From the above page:

"You can only access the mailbox simulator by using Amazon SES. You cannot access it from an external mail server."

It's worth noting that [email protected] bounces, with a 'no such user'. To verify (even though the likelyhood was low), I attempted to create an account in gmail as [email protected], and it failed stating it was already taken. So clearly google has reserved the address, and the only use it could possibly have is to generate bounces.

Even though - as of 07mar2019 - the [email protected] still works, [email protected] is also a fair alternative.

Curiously, [email protected] delivered. Whether there's a human on the other end is a question yet to be answered...

We have a bounce test email which we recommend to our customers and anyone is free to use it.

It just replies back:

:fail: No such person at this address.

The email is: [email protected]

We have it listed in our documentation for our newsletter plugin for WordPress: http://tribulant.com/docs/wordpress-mailing-list-plugin/382#doc1

Hopefully someone will find this useful since there doesn't seem to be any easy way of testing bounces like this specifically.