Seems like the general way is to create a mailbox (POP3 or IMAP) to accept the bounces, then check it periodically and mark the emails as invalid in your local database.
I would set threshholds so you don't mark something failed that only bounced once - it could have been a mail setup error or something else; I'd say wait for 3 failures in a 7 day period at least. If you get 3 bounces by that point, the address is probably safely dead. You can use PHP's IMAP functions to check the mailbox (even for POP3) or a million classes or your own functions directly on the socket (POP3 is a simple protocol) - it also helps if you parse the bounced email message to process the return address and the mail code; perhaps build something better than just 3 failures = invalid, but actually determine if they're full out failures, or if they're just temporary bounces, etc. Another method: you could just parse mail logs, if you have access to them. > Chetan Rane wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I am using a PHP Mailer to send mass mails. > > How can I Identify how mails have bounced. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
