UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Work out whos e-mails are invalid?

What method is best for working out which of my members
e-mail addresses are valid or invalid.

Any suggestions. ?

With classic i would trace the bounce backs on a mail shot?
Is this the best way with V7 ?

Well, there are several aticles online on checking for valid emails (without having to do the whole validation email thing), but several are way bugged...

some check the server to see if there is a valid address (not all servers respond the same way however)
some check to ensure properly formed domains with an mx entry (which can be bugged as the RFC states that if there is no MX entry that the A record is a valid entry)
some just check to ensure the characters entered follow the RFC (like no nonlatin characters, or special characters other than _-; however this doesn't work properly as it doesn't actually validate a thing).

so the best method, email the address and make them click a link ... If they don't click the link within X ammount of days, expire the link and delete their details.

< Mark Ducks >
As that went straight over my head,
as that's what to do and not how to do it

Does Threads do Bounce backs from mail shots ?
I can test this myself, but wondering if someone
has the answer ? Just to save me a little time

Well, in order to have threads check to see if mail bounces, it'd have to either:

• Have an email pipe in your aliases config on your server so that when mail is recieved it is processed by threads to suspend or delete an account.
• Act as a pop3 client and download email from an account and process emails accordinly

Both well beyond the scope of threads at this point (as I think there are some major things that are on the docket to be worked on before dealing with bounced emails (as if a user doesn't approve their email working their details will be purged at registration).

I was using the daily birthday emails to check for bad email accounts. But something got messed up on my end with my mail, and I stopped getting the bounces, although I did confirm the emails are still going out.

I recently did a mass email and used the bounces to check for bad accounts.

Invalid e-mail adresses are just a fact of internet life, including valid e-mails that sometimes get caught up in spam filters.

I just live with it, and just delete all those bounces that come back.

Cheers

Yarp

Less Valium Giz
But thanks for the insite

are we sure it's Valium ? :shrug:

energy pills and booze last I checked; but thanks ...

Simply laying out all options marky

Spam filter kicking in perhaps?

But what happens for those users who have opted not to receive emails?

The system doesn't send mail to users who set that they don't want admin emails (or have no setting at all).

which sadly is the default

Exactly my point.

Sending mass emails and waiting for bouncebacks is only going to highlight bad email addresses of those users who have opted to receive Admin emails. A bit of a waste of time really.

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