Re: Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Lyons
>use www.mailchimp.com >it will handle bounces for you automatically as well as lots of other cool >stuff. > +100 on mailchimp. Its really optimized for this. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/A

Re: Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-23 Thread Russ Michaels
also if u want to keep this local and not use mailchimp, which I would suggest at least trying as it6 also makes sure a lot more of your mail gets delivered and will tell you how many people actually read the emails etc. There is a library around maybe on riaforge for processing email bounces, th

Re: Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-22 Thread matt busche
I'm not 100% sure all this code will work w/ CF5, but this is what I use. The JS is thanks to a UDF written by Ray Camden this code pulls all emails from an inbox and searches for anything that I've identified as a bounceback. Then it uses the UDF to find the email and then I add that email ad

Re: Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-22 Thread Andrew Scott
Yes... Many ways, but the easiest would be to have them bounce into a mailbox of your choosing. You could then use CF to pop the mail and read the information that is needed to identify enough to send the query to the database to delete or do what you need to do. That is just one method, out of

Re: Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-22 Thread Russ Michaels
use www.mailchimp.com it will handle bounces for you automatically as well as lots of other cool stuff. On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Dave Long wrote: > > I have a customer who has a modest opt-in mailing list of approx. 4,000 > subscribers that have been added to a MySQL DB via a CF enabl

Mailing list maintenance.

2011-08-22 Thread Dave Long
I have a customer who has a modest opt-in mailing list of approx. 4,000 subscribers that have been added to a MySQL DB via a CF enabled contact form. Since the list pertains to a once-a-year event, he does not utilize the list until a month or two before the event and perhaps once or twice afterwa