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While this is not always possible, the better email services try to silently discard messages to avoid giving potential spammers information about which email addresses are real and still active.
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Wouldn't it be better to deactivate the address entirely? I wonder how many emails for inactive addresses are clogging the Internet? Old Gmail addresses that are no longer active send back a 550 message:
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550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or unnecessary spaces. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser b20-20020a0565120b9400b00498f3bdbe3asor425394lfv.25 - gsmtp
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Maybe things have changed. I just tried sending to my old FM address and I got a 550 message back:
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550 5.1.1 <emailaddress>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table
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