There is a way to communicate with the mail server's MX record and ask if they accept email for that particular address. A member of my CFUG who sends out mailings of 80,000 plus wrote some code to do that.
He runs the script the day before and then only emails those whom are valid. He also actually processes the majority of the bounce messages automatically. I believe there's a custom tag out there as well but I couldn't locate it in a quick search. There are even web services that for a fee will do the work for you. Rick Mason On Jan 30, 2008 3:03 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not looking at bounced emails, need to scrub the email list BEFORE > messages get sent. > > On Jan 30, 2008 2:12 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Boogiebounce? Basically you need to collect your bounces somewhere > where > > you can process then with CF. You can use boogiebounce to see what type > of > > bounce it is, and clean up any bad bounces off your list. > > > > Russ > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:58 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Email Verification Tool > > > > > > Okay, I'm looking at an interesting situation when it comes to sending > > > out mass emails. We've got a client with about 9000 email addresses > > > on their list and some 2000 are invalid Yahoo and AOL accounts. > > > > > > When they send, our mail server gets blacklisted. Unacceptable. > > > > > > My original though was to have a tool that used telnet and rcpt to > > > commands to validate the email addresses. I've been asked to find out > > > if there is anything out there that will do this already. I found the > > > HexGadget components at http://hexillion.com/hg/ and wonder if it's as > > > simple as that (and if it's fast enough). I've found > > > http://www.pivo.com/Default.aspx?page=features&product=emailvalidator > > > the Pivo validator as well. These are COM objects that appear to > > > handle the tasks. > > > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Hatton > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297764 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
