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Cheers mate. &nbsp;I shall have a read and hopefully work out some code.<br />
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Yes, my thoughts were inclined towards a &quot;tally&quot; of bounced emails for each address. &nbsp;If the last 5 emails have bounced (only 1 email a month which is plenty of time for dns issues, full mailboxes, etc) then the script will automatically remove them.<br />
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I have a bad feeling that this simple function is going to turn into an all night code-a-thon :)
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I would make it in 2 steps:<br />
step1:<br />
&nbsp;the email reader part save any bounced back email address in a &quot;bounced-email&quot; table, along with the date/time.<br />
step2:<br />
&nbsp;once per day for example, check out any email address occuring more than X times in the last Y days.<br />
&nbsp;for each email found there, mark as invalid.<br />
&nbsp; -&gt; you might want to delete the log entries there older than &gt;&nbsp;Y days...<br />
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Haven't forgotten about this topic. Still working on it in between jobs.... and having to deal with email autoresponders as well. What a pain!
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Cancel the bit about autoresponders. &nbsp;I should be able to change the email header so those emails will be directed to a different email address... I hope :)
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&gt;Still working on it in between jobs<br />
I know that situation but tooo well :)
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angellll,<br />
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Thank you for your assistance. This project may take me a little while longer due to other projects jumping the queue. &nbsp;The POP for PHP details above is certainly all I need to keep going on this project.... just at a future date.<br />
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All the best :)
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angellll -<br />
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i am working on the same problem, within the same external work environment .... therefore seeking the path of least resistance .....<br />
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but, when trying to open your link that you referred Lordgobbledegook to (<a href="http://www.phpit.net/article/read-email-php-pop3/" rel="ugc">http://www.phpit.net/article/read-email-php-pop3/</a>), I got php permission errors, requesting the config.php file ....<br />
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as such:<br />
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Warning: require_once(/home/phpit/p<wbr />ublic_html<wbr />/wp-config<wbr />.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/phpit/public_html/wp<wbr />-blog-head<wbr />er.php on line 12<br />
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Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/phpit/public_html/w<wbr />p-config.p<wbr />hp' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/<wbr />php:/usr/l<wbr />ocal/lib/p<wbr />hp') in /home/phpit/public_html/wp<wbr />-blog-head<wbr />er.php on line 12<br />
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might you please have a path in, or solution for viewing your solution to the problem ???<br />
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my greatest thanks ...
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I ended up with a slight variation to solve this problem. &nbsp;Every person subscribed to the newsletter has an ID in the database. &nbsp;The return email address is then simlpy:<br />
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noreply1@domain.com<br />
noreply2@domain.com, etc<br />
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By doing this, if a message is returned I can tell which member it is. &nbsp;Of course, it is important to set a separate Reply-To email for any outgoing messages to avoid any replies from triggering the script.
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Hi experts,<br />
<br />
I am currently writing an email newsletter script. &nbsp;People can subscribe to a newsletter and I will email &quot;en masse&quot; every few weeks. &nbsp;This is in progress and very easy to do.<br />
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Every newsletter there will be a number of bounced emails. &nbsp;These will go back to &nbsp;newsletter@mydomain.com<br />
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I would like PHP to check this email address and extract the address of any emails that have bounced back. &nbsp;Armed with this I can then remove / flag, etc any invalid email addresses.<br />
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Does anyone have a code snippet or a website with a tutorial that will do this? &nbsp;My Googling has come up short. &nbsp;In short, PHP needs to:<br />
<br />
- check email<br />
- extract bad email addresses into a variable / array, etc<br />
- delete email<br />
<br />
Thank you all in advance.
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Hi experts,

I am currently writing an email newsletter script.  People can subscribe to a newsletter and I will email "en masse" every few weeks.  This is in progress and very easy to do.

Every newsletter there will be a number of bounced emails.  These will go back to  newsletter@mydomain.com

I would like PHP to check this email address and extract the address of any emails that have bounced back.  Armed with this I can then remove / flag, etc any invalid email addresses.

Does anyone have a code snippet or a website with a tutorial that will do this?  My Googling has come up short.  In short, PHP needs to:

- check email
- extract bad email addresses into a variable / array, etc
- delete email

Thank you all in advance.

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