Re: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sun, August 13, 2006 9:01 am, tedd wrote: Not because of any inherent problem with PayPal itself, but because the sheer volume of phishing/spam claiming to be PayPal made it impossible to find the legitimate PayPal traffic, which made PayPal useless to me. Different strokes for different

Re: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-13 Thread tedd
At 4:24 PM -0500 8/12/06, Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, August 10, 2006 9:59 pm, tedd wrote: Not a php solution, but send them all a buck via PayPal. For $90 you'll learn if their email addresses are correct. This assumes a much higher market penetration for PayPal than it has, I think...

Re: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-12 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 10, 2006 9:59 pm, tedd wrote: Not a php solution, but send them all a buck via PayPal. For $90 you'll learn if their email addresses are correct. This assumes a much higher market penetration for PayPal than it has, I think... I know I definitely would not get the email from

RE: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-11 Thread Chris W. Parker
tedd mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:59 PM said: Not a php solution, but send them all a buck via PayPal. For $90 you'll learn if their email addresses are correct. That should be cheaper than writing a program to figure it out for you, if it can be done. Here's

[PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-10 Thread Chris W. Parker
Hello, I have about 90 customers who have created accounts but not yet activated them in the past 11 months. That's less than one every 3.6 days but compared to our total number of customers, it's right at the edge of being a significant number. I'm curious to find a way to determine if the mail

Re: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, August 10, 2006 1:48 pm, Chris W. Parker wrote: I have about 90 customers who have created accounts but not yet activated them in the past 11 months. That's less than one every 3.6 days but compared to our total number of customers, it's right at the edge of being a significant number.

RE: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-10 Thread Chris W. Parker
Richard Lynch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:14 PM said: Keep in mind that for many mere mortals, the process of dealing with your email confirmation goes like this: 1. surf to site, put in email 2. check email, find nothing. 3. go back to site, use

Re: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

2006-08-10 Thread tedd
At 11:48 AM -0700 8/10/06, Chris W. Parker wrote: Hello, I have about 90 customers who have created accounts but not yet activated them in the past 11 months. That's less than one every 3.6 days but compared to our total number of customers, it's right at the edge of being a significant number.