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If you have CPanel for website but Google Apps for mail, you should be able to use VERP.

Configuration for VERP is based on the Local Part value @ civicrm/admin/mailSettings?action=update&id=1&reset=1 (for the mail account you're sending from), I believe.

To use the address you give, you need a mailbox which will receive the address 'return@ffff.org' (so then 'return+VERPSTRINGHERE@ffff.org' is the result).

Check in the headers of a CiviMail that you see "Return-Path:" set to the value you want the bounce coming to? If it says eg 'www-data@www.example.org' then the email delivery from CiviCRM *or* MTA on your webserver need config.

You're using Exim? You can configure your MTA to honour the sender set by PHP. But I find it easier to configure the MTA to accept connections on localhost, then it doesn't know whether the origin is www-data or Martha the Martian. So try just setting CiviMail to send via SMTP to localhost 25, that may do the trick.

not sure if this is the same approach but i have used this successfully many times


(settings/filters) set up Spam filter as Has the words --- is:spam (as per http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-and-deactivate-spam-filter-protection-in-gmail-or-google-mail/) AND Do this: Never send it to Spam