Tracking forwarded / bounced e-mails in a newsletter app

[gog93rpf]

Hi,

I am building a newsletter application and am wondering if there is any way I can track the bouncebacks from bad e-mail addresses. Also I need to track if somebody forwards an e-mail to another person. Is there any way I can do either of these things ?

Thanks,

Richard

[petesmc]

You have to set them to bounce to a specific email account then use imap or pop functions to check the inbox for any bounced emails and remove them from the list.

You can't track if someone fowards the email.

[jystewart]

You could also set up the mail server to pipe any mails sent to the bounce account to your script. In cpanel you can set up a forwarding address to forward to:

|/path/to/php /path/to/your/script

[gog93rpf]

Thanks for this guys and for the info on the bounces.

I always wondered how they did the checking for forwarding of mails so I am glad to know it's not possible! I guess I will just have to include a link for them to go to a web page and then they can forward it from there. I cannot think of any other way.

Yours,

Richard

[kyberfabrikken]

do yourself a favour and consider using a mailinglistmanager. checking for bouncing mails isn't trivial at all, and generally speaking there are a lot of pitfalls in this area.

[gog93rpf]

Thanks kyberfabrikken, would you recommend any packages you have used ?

R

[arborint]

Check out phplist at http://phplist.com. It is one of those open source gems like phpMyAdmin, phpBB, WordPress, etc.