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I followed the link offered by dcr226uk above on 2008-05-20 and it took me to a website "ultracar.co.uk", which didn't seem to have any relationship to poMMo.  ????

brice wrote:

dcr226uk,

  Great work... especially in keeping it generic enough to be used across any mailer (that supports CSV removal of subscribers)! Of course I'd like to add this as a base feature of poMMo. If you're interested in doing so, let me know. Until it's added, I'll refer people to your script. Keep it up.

~ Brice

Alas, here in early 2009, that script appears to be unavailable.

I've built yet another bounce mail handler.

This adds a few files in the support directory and gives you 4 functions:
1. Logs into mail server, captures bounced email addresses from the "unsubscribe" link in the returned mail, inserts addresses to a new table.
2. Uses new bounced_mail table to set subscriber.status to 0 (unsubscribed).
3. Deletes bounced mail from server.
4. Displays the bounced_mail table.

Pluses:
You can use the features separately.
You get some feedback during operations.
You can use the bounced_mail table to update your primary database.
Modify the simple php code to suit your needs.
Free-ware.

Minuses:
Getting the correct parameters to login to your email server can be a challenge.
No support.

Get it here:
http://www.telamontech.com/index.html?p … ngsoon.htm

There's a link on the help page for feedback or reply here.

Cheers, Adrian

I've put up an new version that deals better with returned email in quoted-printable format. If you've installed this bounce handler, you need to replace only the file 'bounce_update.php'. The link is:

http://www.telamontech.com/index.html?p … ngsoon.htm

Not sure why the 'code' is attached in your update link, but maybe this will help:

In bounce_update.php, the RegEx pattern I used is:
$pattern= '/\?Email=(.+)">/';

This looks for everything in the returned text that starts with '?Email=' and ends with '">' (the end of the html tag). In your case, the RegEx would return more than just the email address, also including '&code=93a...' (or missing it altogether, since the '?email=' string in your example has lowercase 'e').

If your outgoing emails _always_ contain the '&code=' and lowercase '?email=', your RegEx pattern could look like:

$pattern= '/\?email=(.+)&code=/';

if your outgoing emails only _sometimes_ contain the '&code=' string, then try:

$pattern= '/\?email=(.+)&code=|\?email=(.+)">/';

Where the pipe symbol ('|')  specifies 'or'. This should match the first case if '&code=' is present, or the second case (all the way to the end of the html tag) if '&code=' is not present.

RegEx is tricky and I don't claim to be a RegEx expert - please give this a try and let us know if it works for you. Maybe others will chime in with ideas.

Hi,

It always has the code for instant access. I tried all three suggestions you posted but it still says "No bad addresses were found."

Hi,

Even

$pattern= '/\?\s*e\s*m\s*a\s*i\s*l\s*=(.+)(?:&\s*c\s*o\s*d\s*e\s*=|"\s*>)/Ui';

doesn't do it.

I've included the bounce message below.

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at server.host.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<cxzxcczx@dfdfhfdjhkjfds.df>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named dfdfhfdjhkjfds.df. (#5.1.2)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <news.bounce@mysite.com>
Received: (qmail 11492 invoked by uid 10141); 26 Apr 2009 20:31:01 +0200
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:31:01 +0200
To: cxzxcczx@dfdfhfdjhkjfds.df
From: Newsletter <mysite@mysite.com>
Subject: Just a quick inspiration
Message-ID: <9efa487e9f785dcd3917e08f37cc20b6@mysite.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.72]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="b1_9efa487e9f785dcd3917e08f37cc20b6"


--b1_9efa487e9f785dcd3917e08f37cc20b6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset = "UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit



    Hey dsfdfdfsfd, here's just a quick inspiration for you to look at.
 Good luck with it and enjoy.
 Love,
 Jerry. 
    ______ 

    Unsubscribe or Update Records [1]

Links:
------
[1] http://mysite.com/http://mysite.com/newsletter/user/update.php?email=cxzxcczx@dfdfhfdjhkjfds.df&code=93a9277fd7bacfd98d9147e9ccc5728c


--b1_9efa487e9f785dcd3917e08f37cc20b6
Content-Type: text/html; charset = "UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<p>Hey dsfdfdfsfd, here's just a quick inspiration for you to look at.<br />
<br />
Good luck with it and enjoy.<br />
<br />
Love,<br />
Jerry.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>______</p>
<p><a href="http://mysite.com/newsletter/user/update.php?email=cxzxcczx@dfdfhfdjhkjfds.df&code=93a9277fd7bacfd98d9147e9ccc5728c"><small>Unsubscribe or Update Records</small></a></p>



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Error found! The problem was the [mailbox] setting. It did login, the RegExp apparently worked, but it couldn't find the email folder. Just setting 'INBOX' was enough in my case. So my config looks like this;

[url]= imap.mysite.com

[mailbox]= INBOX

[user]= full@emailaddress.com

[pass]= passwordgoeshere

The bounce handler now works perfectly. Thank you very much for your effort in creating and supporting this wonderful addition!

hi knoxdems,
right now i'm using shared hosting at bluehost. so, telnet is not my option to troubleshoot the imap setting. can you provide some imap setting sample?

here is warning message that i get when i click updated bounces

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream {mail.lighthouse.asia:143/imap}inbox.bounces@lighthouse.asia in /home/userhost/public_html/poMMo2/support/bounce/bounce_update.php on line 40
Failed to open IMAP stream to mailbox. No results possible.

thanks

still not working.

hi,
thanks for the advice. it work now. here is the setting that i use

[url]= localhost:143/notls

[mailbox]= INBOX

[user]= bounces@something.com

[pass]= password

I've been trying to install the bounce manager but I can't get it to work.  This sounds daft, but can you give some instructions on how to install the thing?!

EDIT: I saw the help file (silly me!).  Unfortunately our inhouse emails are all managed by MS Exchange.  Is it possible to use the bounce manager alongside Exchange?

Last edited by melat0nin (2009-07-24 08:54:05)