I have set up a survey, I sent out email invitations to 50 addresses.

I received one auto-reply message, but no bounce emails. Just to try it out, I put in a couple of bogus email addresses and did not receive any bounce messages. I'm wondering if I need to do something to enable getting them.

(I am using 1.90 and PHP for email.)

Should I try using sendmail or qmail instead? And how would I go about doing that, would I have to install something else?

I think this depends on the configuration of PHP. What happens if you use SMTP?

where might I configure the PHP settings?

as far as smtp goes, I have not been successful at getting it to work, I get the below error. I have tried both my gmail account and my regular account hosted by godaddy



# Error Message: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.SMTP debug output:

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)

I'm not sure how the bounce emailing (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_delivery_report) in Limesurvey works in general, but doesn't that just mean you get a "the user doesn't exist" or similar message from the email provider?
So when using test email addresses like " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " you won't receive a bounce email, because the "wreoughrewough" domain won't exist. If you use " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " for testing, you should receive bounce emails.

That is part of my problem, I sent to domains I knew existed but to users I knew should have bounce back.