NYCPHP Meetup

[Jerry Kapron]

Faber,
I think the problem here is not John not being clear with his question but
rather you not understanding John's question.
He's clearly asking how he should parse the bounced mail messages to know
what addresses he should remove from his list. IMHO, if you can't help
someone, don't open your mouth and confuse them even more asking all those
irrelevant questions.
I also think your attitude was inappropriate and you've done it more than
once.

John,
The solution posted by Jeff is what I've used in the past. However, you also
have to be aware that there are different types of bounces (hard, soft,
block).  The trick is identify what type of bounce a given bounce is.  You
shouldn't really do anything about soft bounces because they are usually
caused by the destination MX host(s) being temporarily inaccessible.  A
couple of years ago I wrote a script that "tries" to establish the type of
bounce at hand. It actually did a good job. I'll look for it and e-mail you
off-list or if anyone else is interested I'll post it here.

Jerry


-----Original Message-----
From: Faber Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com>
To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:27 PM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Re: Monitoring for Bounce Mail


>On 28/04/05 22:41 -0400, John Nunez wrote:
>> Sorry, I just have a script that I wrote 2 years ago. It goes through a
>> database table
>
>We need to search through a database table!? Which one?  MySQL?  dbm?
>Postgres?  Excel?  a text file?  WHAT?!?!
>
>> of email addresses and transmits the newsletter to them.
>>  The only alteration I have made in the last two years is transmit in
>> batches. I don't use any software because some of the sign ups are via
>> email, http, user registrations via US Mail and the new one will be
>> straight from a desktop application.
>
>You are not giving us (read: me) *any* information to help you.
>
>Going back to your initial posting, how do you expect anyone to give you
>a regex to search email addresses when you never told us that the data
>was in a database table (we still don't know what kind) for a script
>that you wrote two years ago that I doubt anyone here knows about?
>
>Are we supposed to read your mind?
>
>Start here and RTFA http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>Once we know what you have and what you need, then maybe, MAYBE we can
>help out.
>
>
>--
>
>Regards,
>
>Faber Fedor
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