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Different bounced emau numbers by different tools

  • January 31, 2025
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MsIreen
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Hi, we have sent an email from SF Marketing cloud to a sample, and then a survey from Qualtrics to the same sample.

As a result the number of hard bounces is different in both systems.

Has anyone had same issues and looked into them? Would love your insights on the reasons behind them. Thanks in advance!

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  • Qualtrics Employee
  • October 2, 2025

 

Thanks for posting!

 

To properly troubleshoot this issue and securely access your account for a deeper review, please submit a ticket through your Customer Success Hub.

This is the fastest and most secure way to get a personalized resolution:

 

➡️ https://support-portal.qualtrics.com/

 

We look forward to taking a closer look!


JoycaV
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  • December 2, 2025

 Hi ​@MsIreen , did you learn something from this?

I am building a workflow that triggers on “Hard Bounce”,

and I am trying very hard to actually force a hard bounce, but I seem to be only able to get soft bounces…

I have tried:

hardbounce@bounce.example.com    

test@invalid.example    

test.hardbounce@thisdoesnotexist.this    

hardbounce@no-such-domain-qualtrics-test-987654321.com    

 

and all of these are just returning soft bounces!


vgayraud
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  • December 2, 2025

Hi ​@JoycaV 

Surprisingly, all your examples can be processed as temporary soft bounces. Try using an address with your domain that you know doesn’t exist (or is very improbable to exist). For example, if your domain is qualtrics.com, try no-such-address-qualtrics-test-987654321@qualtrics.com.

You can also try a domain that doesn’t comply with DNS specs, like test@%qualtrics..com

Best,