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BounceAction

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BounceAction - Amazon Simple Email Service

When included in a receipt rule, this action rejects the received email by returning a bounce response to the sender and, optionally, publishes a notification to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

For information about sending a bounce message in response to a received email, see the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

Contents

Message

Human-readable text to include in the bounce message.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Sender

The email address of the sender of the bounced email. This is the address from which the bounce message is sent.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SmtpReplyCode

The SMTP reply code, as defined by RFC 5321.

Type: String

Required: Yes

StatusCode

The SMTP enhanced status code, as defined by RFC 3463.

Type: String

Required: No

TopicArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon SNS topic to notify when the bounce action is taken. You can find the ARN of a topic by using the ListTopics operation in Amazon SNS.

For more information about Amazon SNS topics, see the Amazon SNS Developer Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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