Simulated scenario Email address Successful delivery —The recipient's email provider accepts your email. If you set up delivery notifications as described in Setting up event notification for Amazon SES , Amazon SES sends you a delivery notification through Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). success@simulator.amazonses.com Bounce —The recipient's email provider rejects your email with an SMTP 550 5.1.1 ("Unknown User") response code. Amazon SES generates a bounce notification and, depending on how you set up your account, sends it to you in an email or sends a notification to an Amazon SNS topic. The mailbox simulator email address isn't placed on the Amazon SES suppression list, which would normally happen when a hard bounce occurs. The bounce response that you receive from the mailbox simulator is compliant with RFC 3464 . For information about how to receive bounce feedback, see Setting up event notification for Amazon SES . bounce@simulator.am...