On 11/23/19 13:06, Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop wrote:
Do you have some examples of reputable list cleaning services?
Devlin Null does a very thorough job of removing questionable addresses.
If you're considering mass email to a list of unknown or sketchy
provenance, feed it to Dev.
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Dnia 24.11.2019 o godz. 22:20:15 Michael Orlitzky via mailop pisze:
> On 11/24/19 12:17 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
> >
> > Just to be precise, you should check for either MX or A/ record.
>
> This prevents you from eliminating a huge number of bad addresses,
> though, to save a
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019, Michael Orlitzky via mailop wrote:
> For the same reason, I would recommend verifying the addresses against a
> simple regular expression to catch typos, rather than against the full
> rfc5322 grammar which allows basically anything.
Hopefully not the one which is used on
On 11/24/19 12:17 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
>
> Just to be precise, you should check for either MX or A/ record.
This prevents you from eliminating a huge number of bad addresses,
though, to save a negligible amount of good ones.
For the same reason, I would recommend verifying
Dnia 24.11.2019 o godz. 17:47:43 hg user via mailop pisze:
> When I had to do this kind of work on a mailing list, *more than 10 years
> ago*, I started creating a list of all the unique email domains, then with
> a script check if a MX record was present.
Just to be precise, you should check for
When I had to do this kind of work on a mailing list, *more than 10 years
ago*, I started creating a list of all the unique email domains, then with
a script check if a MX record was present.
I think this method can be used today just to check how many domains are no
longer active and how many
Dnia 23.11.2019 o godz. 20:05:07 Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop pisze:
> In the olden days, one would simply write a script, using expect(1) or
> similar, to go through the addresses, connect to the target MTAs, and do
> an SMTP VRFY on the recipient address. Today, I suspect that most MTAs
> will
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop wrote:
> In the olden days, one would simply write a script, using expect(1) or
> similar, to go through the addresses, connect to the target MTAs, and do
> an SMTP VRFY on the recipient address. Today, I suspect that most MTAs
Some MTAs have
On 23 Nov 2019, at 16:06, Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop wrote:
Do you have some examples of reputable list cleaning services?
No such entity can exist in the modern world.
As Matt noted, without a reliable provenance and explicit permission for
each and every address that might be subject to
There are also several legislative hurdles you’ll need to evaluate the list
against. Two that come to mind are:
Canada’s Anti-Spam Law has a two year expiry on implied consent. If you have
addresses older than that in Canada you would likely be in violation of the
law.
GDPR also has some
Hi, Steve,
On 23-11-19 20:18, Steve Atkins via mailop wrote:
On 23/11/2019 19:05, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop wrote:
"Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop" writes:
What would be a good strategy for this customer to update his list of
contacts?
If it's old enough that they're asking the
On 2019-11-23 11:05 a.m., Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop wrote:
"Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop" writes:
What would be a good strategy for this customer to update his list of
contacts?
In the olden days, one would simply write a script, using expect(1) or
similar, to go through the addresses,
On 23 Nov 2019, at 11:05, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop wrote:
> Today, I suspect that most MTAs
> will refuse to service a VRFY request.
>
> Anyone know if that assumption is good?
I would be very surprised if you were wrong.
-lem
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On 23/11/2019 19:05, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via mailop wrote:
"Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop" writes:
What would be a good strategy for this customer to update his list of
contacts?
If it's old enough that they're asking the question, and are afraid of
the impact of even a single "Hey, still
"Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop" writes:
> What would be a good strategy for this customer to update his list of
> contacts?
In the olden days, one would simply write a script, using expect(1) or
similar, to go through the addresses, connect to the target MTAs, and do
an SMTP VRFY on the
On 11/23/19 02:57, Rolf E. Sonneveld via mailop wrote:
Hi,
over the years, one of my customers has built up a list of contacts
(mail addresses). He didn't use the list for quite some time and now he > wants to prune the list by checking the existence/validity of the
addresses and remove the
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