Handling Bounced Emails

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Has anyone successfully implemented anything on your servers etc to handle bounced emails automatically?

I send out newsletters on a couple of websites I run, and one of which I received approx. 2000 bounced emails. Obviously I don’t want to manually go through these and remove the users from a database, so was hoping someone may be able to help.

I came across the below, but it relies on a wildcard email address, which I don’t think we can use:

http://forums.theplanet.com/lofiversion/index.php/t89873.html

Any ideas / suggestions / code would be great!

Thanks!

Oli

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Have you found a solution for this?

I’ve just tried sending to [email protected] and [email protected] and it seems plus addressing is not working on jodo servers.

Is there a way to use some kind of plus addressing with jodo mail servers?

Thank you very much!

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Late response but I hope it’s still helpful. The open source phpList newsletter system will automatically manage bounced emails. You set up a special mailbox to receive the bounce messages. Then, you configure the program to scan that box. You can set it to remove recipients after X number of bounces (to avoid removing users whose boxes are temporarily full, etc.).

Tim

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Brilliant, thanks Tim! Sounds exactly like what I’m after!