Thanks for you solution. My concern with putting stuff in the reply-to is that when the email receiver replies email back, wouldn't that email also go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? In this case, how do we know if it is a bounce or a real reply?
Thanks, CQ Danny Angus wrote: > make the Reply-to: field of each mail be like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > where 1234 is a UID then catch them with a matcher & mailet, and use the UID > to update your lists. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chang Zhou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:35 PM > > To: James Users List > > Subject: how to identify rebounced email? > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have emails sent through JavaMail API and I am stuck on how to > > identify the bounced back emails (e.g. wrong email address, host not > > available). > > > > For eachl email sent out, if it bounces back, I need to parse this > > email and tie it back to the original email sent out so that I know > > which one is failed. > > > > There are hard ways to do it. I can hide some infomation in the header, > > body or subject line, say a sequence number, then parse the bounced back > > email and get the number. > > > > But, come on! There;s got to have an elegant way to handle it. > > > > Can somebody tell me how? > > > > Thanks. > > > > CQ > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
