CoreCP

Where your email went

"I sent a quote this morning and the customer says nothing arrived." That is the question this screen exists for. It shows, per message, what the mail server did with it: accepted, deferred, bounced or refused — and when it went wrong, what

Written for: Customer, Reseller, Administrator

"I sent a quote this morning and the customer says nothing arrived." That is the question this screen exists for. It shows, per message, what the mail server did with it: accepted, deferred, bounced or refused — and when it went wrong, what the receiving server said about it, in its own words.

You find it on the account under Email → Delivery log, or directly at /accounts/<account>/mail/tracker.

What you do and do not see

You see the envelope only: who wrote to whom, when, how big, and what the other end answered.

You never see the subject and never the content. That is not an oversight but the rule the whole feature rests on: a log with subjects in it would be a searchable archive of everything ever mailed through the server. So none of the content is stored — not even "briefly".

The four states

StateWhat it meansWhat to do
Acceptedthe receiving server took the messagenothing — it was delivered
Deferredthe other end did not want it right now; the server keeps tryingwait; usually greylisting or a full mailbox
Bouncedit was accepted and then permanently failedread the reason; usually an address that does not exist
Refusedthe server turned it away at the doorincoming mail; usually spam, or an address that does not exist here

Accepted means the next server took it over. What that server does with it afterwards — inbox or spam folder — nobody outside can see, including your hosting provider.

Searching

Four tiles at the top show the counts. Press a tile to show only that state; press it again to drop the filter.

Beside them you search by address. Part of one is enough: @customer.com shows everything from and to that domain. Searching for quote finds nothing — the content is not searched, because it is not there.

One message in detail

Click a row and a panel slides open with everything known about that message: each recipient separately, with the code, the server that answered, how long it took and the sentence the other end sent back. For example:

nobody@example.com         bounced   5.1.1   host mx.example.com said:
                                             550 5.1.1 User unknown

That is usually the answer straight away: User unknown is an address that does not exist (a typo, or somebody left the company), Greylisted is a delay that resolves itself, over quota is a full mailbox at the other end.

If one message went to three people and one failed, the message is listed as bounced and the panel shows which of the three it was.

How far back

The server keeps 30 days. There is nothing older in this screen — the charts under Statistics go back further, but they only count and name no addresses.

From the command line

corectl mail track --account youraccount --status bounced
QUEUE ID         WHEN              STATE     FROM                           TO
4C32E841B95      2026-08-11 20:14  bounced   info@yourdomain.com            nobody@gone.invalid
corectl mail track show 4C32E841B95

Who sees what

You see the mail of your own domains and nobody else's. An administrator can open the same screen for a whole server (Servers → a server → This server's mail delivery) or for the whole platform (Statistics → Mail delivery).

See also

  • Setting up email — mailboxes, aliases and forwarding addresses.
  • Making email arrive — SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
  • Stopping spam — the filter and your own sender lists.