Bulk Email Bounce Detection

[brooky]

Hello,

I have written a nice little script which send email to those subscribed to my mailing list.

The list is now 12,000 in size and there are about 2,000 bounces.

I wish to have a bounce email address and then use IMAP to update the bounce level of each user in mysql up each time.

When this reaches a level of 3 the mail script will no longer send email to them.

Can anyone point me in the direction to do this. I am familiar with IMAP and reading email in php.

I just can't work out an effective way to do it!!

Any ideas/advice?

[tekky]

Well I would have to say you have some design issues to work out.

1) do you want this value to ONLY go up..
a) or do you want your mailing program to access this database and decrement the "bounce level" after X successful emails w/o bounces

2) if value only goes up you only need a few things tracked...
id, email_address, bounce_level

beyond that...you should be able to figure it out...

[brooky]

Yeah I just want it to go up not down and up...

I do need to work out how to parse the email id. 😉

Should get there with a bit or work...

Will this function give me the email id?
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.imap-fetchheader.php

FT_UID - The msgno argument is a UID