That is a good solution Mark. One can remove the e-mails that bounces more than X times. Thank you for the tip!
BP. >I have the same problem. I have thought up several possible ways, but there >is no good answer that I know of. > >The best method that I have come up with is to assign a very identifiable ID >to each email address and include it in the bottom of the email newsletter >body. Then use outlook to check the return account and after about a week >I will export the "bad address" folder to an access database. (Or any other >client that will export to a file that can be imported to a database) Then >do a search for the identifiable IDs and log them as a "strike". After a >few newsletter sends the email that have constantly bounced "struck out" are >bad. > >This should take account for temporary mail server failures, out of office >replies, email account quota reached, etc... > >Mark W. Breneman >-Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer >-Network / Web Server Administrator > Vivid Media > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.vividmedia.com > 608.270.9770 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Blood Python [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:40 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Removing bad emails from newsletter db > > >One of my client's has about 103k people in his mailing list. He's running >his website since 99 and many of these e-mails are bad ones. > >He wants me to remove the bad e-mails from this list. I used to do that >using a software called worldcast, from fairlogic (www.fairlogic.com). It >uses DNS to validate e-mails, pretending to send an e-mail and stopping just >after he got the 250 code (user exists) or 550 (unknow). > >Unfortunatly, many networks are not allowing DNS sends, because of spam, so >it its not a good solution anymore. I will need to build a tool that >interprets the returned e-mails from an actual send (those Undeliverable >e-mails) and delete the user based on this e-mail's content. > >Do you guys knows any software or code that do such thing? Doesn't need to >be in cf... I will need to code it myself if i don't find something like >that to use, because client needs it very bad (he needs to reduce bandwidth >costs). > >Thank you for your repplies in advance. > >BP. > >_________________________________________________________________ >STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
