Auto Cleanup - Bounced Emails

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   Bruce,
Is there any way (obviously for a future version), to have a feature which will allow bounced email addresses to be unsubscribed in the database automatically?

Ie, a 'cleanup' script which admins could run, which will go through the inbox of the sending email address, sniff for 550 bounces (for example), and unsubscribe that email address?

I know bounced emails could be ignored, but why send 5000 emails, when 50% of them are addresses that no longer exist.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers,

Oli

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MortiOli Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 May 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 490 Points: 511	Post Options Post Reply Quote MortiOli Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Auto Cleanup - Bounced Emails Posted: 09 April 2009 at 8:15pm
	Bruce, Is there any way (obviously for a future version), to have a feature which will allow bounced email addresses to be unsubscribed in the database automatically? Ie, a 'cleanup' script which admins could run, which will go through the inbox of the sending email address, sniff for 550 bounces (for example), and unsubscribe that email address? I know bounced emails could be ignored, but why send 5000 emails, when 50% of them are addresses that no longer exist. Hope that makes sense. Cheers, Oli

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Poole, England Status: Offline Posts: 22683 Points: 5874	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2009 at 8:39am
	Most email components can not pickup emails, but only relay emails to a mail server. This means that without special components installed on the server it is not possible to retreave emails from an inbox to process them.


MortiOli Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 May 2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 490 Points: 511	Post Options Post Reply Quote MortiOli Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 April 2009 at 8:49pm
	Ah well, it was a good idea

JonnoB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11 July 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 27 Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote JonnoB Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 04 November 2009 at 12:10am
	This would be similar to the upload feature.. most require the purchase of a separate component although there are free ones as well. A pop3 component can be used. There are some examples here: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092201-1.shtml Then, you would have to create a tool that an administrator would run, it would log into a mailbox with the bounced emails and then scan the mailbox for content and based on the contents, remove the subscriber. Plenty of work, but definately doable.