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How to Del from DB email that bounced

even with opt-in I foresee bounced email

         

henry0

6:47 pm on Jun 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am scripting a NL mailer for an org and something just popped in my mind:
How could I auto del from the DB any row tied with an email that bounced?
I really have no clue, could it be done?
I am on a dedicated server but doubt that I will ever have mail server access :)

barns101

12:03 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've never done it but I think I remember reading that you can set up the mail server to direct bounce emails to a script which then reads the email, extracts the email address and deletes it from the database.

henry0

12:20 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, I will investigate; however as I mentioned earlier I doubt that I can do anything mail server side

jatar_k

3:11 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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odds are then that you would have to do it manually, you don't even necessarily need to delete, just set a nomail flag or something

the thing I normally use is [procmail.org...]

henry0

3:26 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Good link, Thanks Jatar_k

henry0

7:42 pm on Jun 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am moving in another direction
If I can set a cron that will send me a daily CSV of bounced, failures etc...
Then I could easlily be in business