# How to handle "out of office" bounced mails

**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-handle-out-of-office-bounced-mails/5657
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-handle-out-of-office-bounced-mails/5657 "2016-03-17T16:59:33Z")
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### Author: ![ivgaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b38774/32.png) [@ivgaston](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ivgaston)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-handle-out-of-office-bounced-mails/5657/1 "2016-03-17T16:59:33Z")

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I have a campaign which will send 33000 mails. All works fine, but I got 900 »Out of office« replies which will handled as »Do not contact«. Is the reason the bounce management? How to deal with such mails? How can I avoid that such mails are marked as bounced?

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### Author: ![ivgaston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b38774/32.png) [@ivgaston](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ivgaston)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/how-to-handle-out-of-office-bounced-mails/5657/2 "2016-03-17T16:59:33Z")

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I have a campaign which will send 33000 mails. All works fine, but I got 900 »Out of office« replies which will handled as »Do not contact«. Is the reason the bounce management? How to deal with such mails? How can I avoid that such mails are marked as bounced?