I believe (can anyone confirm this?) that when a mail server employs greylisting against spammers, that would also send a Delivery Status Notification message, but your mail server seems to know to retry it and it gets through.
The reason I think this is what happens is that I was trying to track down a problem where people would sign up for my newsletter, get the first issue then never get it again.. I had it automatically removing people whom we got a failure notice on. So now, I check that it happens twice - on 2 different issues, before I remove them.. >really? >because the inbox is full... >crap.. i just removed 507 users from getting the email... > >On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Azadi Saryev <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > add a FAILTO attribute to your <cfmail> tag and specify an email address > > to send failure notifications to. > > make sure the account you specify is NOT used for anything else - create > > a new bounce@ account or something like that if necessary. > > use <cfpop> or cf's exchange server integration tags/functions to check > > that email account for new messages, get the headers and process as > > necessary. > > keep in mind that not every reply/message that goes into that account > > may be a failure due to invalid address. sometimes you get failures > > because recipient's inbox is full, or due to network problems. > > > > > > Azadi Saryev > > Sabai-dee.com > > http://www.sabai-dee.com/ > > > > > > On 08/06/2009 19:35, Paul Ihrig wrote: > > > hey guys > > > > > > question > > > i ran a cfmail over the weekend to 37,000 customers. in exchange i got > > 507 > > > "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" > > > any one know of a quick and dirty way to grab just the email address of > > the > > > returned email, with out opening each message and coping and pasting > > > i need to remove the bounced users from future mails,... > > > > > > also is there a programatic way to capture the info and slap it into a > > table > > > next time? > > > how do you guys deal with this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
