Hallo! Is it possible theoritically to check an email address before sending an email? If yes, this would be interesting for the newsletter mailing area. Manytimes email addresses gets invalid and the email comes back. It is a lot of pain to work with the emails that have not been delivered and hunt for the email address or the users. If there is a system of checking an email address before sending, it would be possible to insert flags so that the admin can retrace immediately and rather directly from the admin.
Unfortunately, there is no better test for e-mail than to send it. It is possible to handle bounces automatically, but it is very complex and hosting -specific to make it standard feature, because 80% of customers will have problems with configuring this function.
Hi! Thanks for your quick reply. Well, I may be fully wrong, but I have a vague idea that there is a possibility to make a ping for a valid email address. If exists, then relay. If not, quirk or tell the admin by entering a flag in the database. Not many users would have full environment of a server. Exactly thats the reason why I mentioned of this solution, if technically possible.
heck, even adding a return to email for bounces in the config or something would be nice... then you just have to set up an email account to catch all those emails and process them manually once in a while (delete the invalid emails from the database)
Why don't you try setting up a filter in your email hosting system to send all bounces to a specific email address or filter them to an alternate folder in your email client if your client has that function?
that's the thing - if you know of a way to set this up on cPanel for a website where the amember is being hosted on, I am all ears, as all the emails are being stored on the server itself
Sorry to take so long to get back to you but I didnt notice this question till tonight. In Cpanel under the heading of MAIL, there's an option for account level filtering OR user level filtering. You could do one of two things. 1. Set up a filter in user level filtering , to filter out bounces and redirect them to an email address called bounce@yourdomain.com. Bounces can be filtered out by looking for error standard error messages and subjects in bounced emails. If you look up email error codes on the net you will find a list of error messages that are attached to the various types of bounces. You may have to fine tune this over time as different mailservers use different subject headings for bounced emails but they should all use std error codes (see http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/codes.html for a list of std email error codes). These codes will appear within the returned emails. or alternatively you could 2. Set up the reply/send address in your emails to noreply@yourdomain.com and all bounces will then come back to that account. Either way all your bounces will filter to a single account to make it easier You will have to make sure you create either an email account on your host called bounce@yourdomain.com OR noreply@yourdomain.com first Steve