bouncing email

[omoutop]

Hello all.

In a recent project, a customer asked me to create a mailing report on bouncing emails.

His mailing list is being checked on valid email syntax/form. But some emails are just fake.

Is there a way to know how many emails that were send, return back?

Thanks in advance for any info/insight

[phparion]

I guess you will have to use PHP with your mail server to check the bouncing emails etc. I am not sure if there is already some built-in mechanism in mail servers to show the bouncing emails etc.

[henry0]

I do not remember where I seen it (sorry!) but I know that somewhere there is one or actually more than one class that addresses the bouncing log problem
start by checking phpclass

[omoutop]

ok henry... i will start digging ... thanks both of you

[jatar_k]

you could also use a service to check that, there are a bunch around

if each message had an id attached to it and was sent from a specific address then you could process that address using php and check the embedded id in the message against your db/list.

you could use something like [procmail.org...] as well

[mark_roach]

I have written something recently in perl to do this job.

As jatar_k says you can insert a hidden id in the header records when you send the email and send from a unique email address. It should then be a relatively easy task to use pop3 to check the mailbox for any bounced emails.

[omoutop]

@Jatar_K

thats exactly what i am trying to avoid at all costs...

i had bad experience with proc in the past :)

[jatar_k]

well you could do the same with php functions, well not quite as seamlessly but it should be fine