Hi Dave, Cool, glad I could help!
The one possible gotcha will be dragging the emails out of your Tbird Inbox folder and into another folder. Not sure on a Mac if it automatically converts them into text files as it does on Windows. Also, dragging and dropping 10,000 emails at once might be kind of sketchy, so you'll probably want to break them into chunks somehow. Although if you have a relatively new Mac it should be able to handle it. Hope it works out for you. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:08 PM Subject: Re: removing bad emails from bounced emails and db > Josh, > The more i think about it the better this sounds. Once the big lot is down > what i have will work fine. > > Before i got this one the previous site had NO checking at all on the > emails going into the db, so there was tons of crap in there, almost > 60,000 bad entries when i cleaned it out. I do pretty decent checking now, > there are just a lot of old email addies in it. > > Im on a mac so i think i will dl thunderbird and do this. > > thanks for the suggestion, i think in this particular case it is the best > solution so far. > > dave > > > >>Dave -- I have used a tag like the activsoftware one before. They are >>great >>if you are verifying a single email address as legit before sticking it in >>your db. They actually go out and check the domain. However, if you are >>doing 10,000 of these, I think it would be prohibitively slow. Also, you >>already know they are bad emails since they bounced, correct? >> >>Once you have moved the bounced emails around as I described before, the >>work is all done except running your script to parse the email address and >>remove it from your db. >> >>I was forced into figuring this out since I was in essentially the same >>situation as you, and I didn't want to go through 300 emails and manually >>remove each email from the db. >> >>You still might want the activsoftware tag though, those are good for >>keeping bad emails out of your db in the first place. >> >>-- Josh >> >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Dave Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> >>Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:31 PM >>Subject: Re: removing bad emails from bounced emails and db >> >> >>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255856 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
