Thanks Michael! I'll do that. EC -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dealing with bounced email
There are actually less than a dozen formats that account for over 90% of the bounced mail you'll get. I've been planning an app to do exactly what your requesting but never got around to it. I'd ask Howie Hamlin about it as he's probably written or heard something that does this for iMS. If not, get a weeks worth of mail and look through it. You'll start seeing patterns that can be written into a fast RegEx library using the return header as a key to which regex to use. > I am working with an iMail mailing list for a > relatively large organization and need to work on a > way to deal with bounced mailing list messages. When > the messages come back, they are delivered to the > mailing list owner's mailbox. What I'd like to do is > download the mail messages with CFPOP, figure out the > email address that bounced and then mark it off in my > database as a bouncing address (The mailing list is > automatically synced up with a membership database). > > The problem I am having is that I am seeing alot of > different formats for bounced mail messages. I could > just strip out any and all email addresses and mark > the ones that it finds in the database, but the > trouble is that often one of the addresses is the > sender's email address and I haven't figured out a > reliable way to exclude that address. > > Can anyone make any suggestions on how this could be > done reliably? > > Thanks! > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Make Yahoo! your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:198704 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
