Bounce Email handling with PHP?

The best scenario is be able to classify the type of bounce: soft, hard...

what we use is BounceStudio. You need to compile it and add the php libraries... not hard at all. You have the free and paid version of that product

once we detect the kind of bounce we use PEAR::MAIL::MIME to search for custom headers that we added previously to the email, lets say:

X-user-id: XXXXX
X-campaign-id: YYYYYY 
X-recipient-id: SSSSSSSSS

in this way we can know the real recipient that we sent the email to.

hope this help you! so you can help me to get to the 500 points :P

Let the emails bounce to an address that is really an emailadress (with login details etc.).

Make a php script which runs ever x minutes (for example with a cron job). This php script must do the following. - Retrieve all email from the box (use for example Zend Mail) - Check for the error in the message (e.g. by searching it with regular expressions) - Do what ever is necessary.

If you want to know specifically who has bounced back you can use user specific bounce addresses. (See for example this site)

Why not create a bounce@domain.com and use php to read those emails and do what ever you want?

Edit After your comment : Please chec my link whcih has a php script which will teach you how to open and email box using php and read the emails. You can use this scrip to check the error messages.

Maybe it's a little late for the answer, but you can always try something new. I had the last week a task like this, and used BOUNCE HANDLER Class, by Chris Fortune, which chops up the bounce into associative arrays - http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/11665.html

This will be used after you connect to the POP3 with some mailer to get the bounces from it, then parse it into pieces with this, and if has the status you searched for, do the necessary actions.

Cheers.

If you've got a POP3 mailbox set up for bounce@domain.com, you could use a POP3 client script written in PHP to retrieve the messages and check for undeliverable messages.

You should look at SwiftMailer. It's completely written in PHP and has support for "bounce" emails. http://swiftmailer.org/

You could always use something like http://cloudmailin.com to forward the bounced emails on to your php server via http however you may be better with a service dedicated to sending emails and using their api to retrieve the bounce details.

i have had pretty bad luck looking for a PHP solution for this, but i ran across this product that does just what i needed.

it runs as a native app mac/win but it does the job.

http://www.maxprog.com/site/software/internet-marketing/email-bounce-handler_sheet_us.php

I was searching for the answer to the same question. There are more parts of the question, and more options.

For handling the bounced e-mail, I found a PHP class, purely in PHP, no compile or additional software installation needed if you have a PHP powered site. It is very easy to use.

If you are using cPanel, or InterWorx/SiteWorx, you can configure some of the addresses to handle the received e-mails with a script, for example a PHP script, so you can write your own handling with the aid of the mentioned class. Or of course still you can create ordinary e-mail accounts and retrieve the mails via POP3 or IMAP, and then interpret them. I think the first one is better, because it's direct, you don't have to use additional channels, like IMAP. Of course if you can't configure your mail server, or don't know how to do it, then the former is better for you.

Good luck! :)

In the php mail command http://php.net/mail

you use the fifth parameter and add "-f" to it.

So, you use "-f mybouncebox@mydomain.com" as the parameter

the phpList newsletter manager uses this to manage bounces.

Once the bounces fill up in the mailbox, you can POP them, and process them. That's the easiest way to deal with them, as opposed to handling them when they arrive.