Email delete function

[Kysmiley]

Im looking for ideas on writing a function or finding one that would delete table content based on email being returned based on either unsubscribe or on email bouncing. I am just in the organization phase of writing this script.
Pat

[jatar_k]

I have heard many recommendations for using Procmail [procmail.org] to process email.

[SofterLogic UK]

It depends on your mail server. If you run, for example, qmail, you can probably just do a daily grep of the server, as all the emails are kept as plaintext files.

$text = system("grep -Rl unsubscribe /var/qmail/mailnames/yourdomain.com/unsubscribe/Maildir/*");

The contents of text will then be a \n seperated list of direct file names for all emails containing the word "unsubscribe" that are within your "[e-mail]" email account.

You can then parse out (preg_match) or similar the email address and other particulars you may want, before deleting the files.