Comments on: HOW-TO: Email Bounce Management http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/ The Blog of J.J. Merrick Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Fraser http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/comment-page-1/#comment-18854 Fraser Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:12:03 +0000 http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/#comment-18854 Thanks for sharing this, turned out very useful. Thanks for sharing this, turned out very useful.

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]]> By: J.J. Merrick http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/comment-page-1/#comment-89 J.J. Merrick Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:17:15 +0000 http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/#comment-89 Ziggy, The reason being is that I want to know the exact ID of the person in my system. Just scanning the email can cause undesirable results because sometimes the person being emailed may have it forwarded to an address that is defunct. The return email would list the defunct email and not the address in my system. This way I know who the person is in my system regardless of the email address that is in the body. Later variants of this system did include a "bounce factor" and would do hard bounces and soft bounces. Soft bounces would wait until a certain threshold before deleting from the system. Hard would just do it immediately. This was determined by the subject line which usually always included "failure" in it. Ziggy,

The reason being is that I want to know the exact ID of the person in my system. Just scanning the email can cause undesirable results because sometimes the person being emailed may have it forwarded to an address that is defunct. The return email would list the defunct email and not the address in my system. This way I know who the person is in my system regardless of the email address that is in the body.

Later variants of this system did include a “bounce factor” and would do hard bounces and soft bounces. Soft bounces would wait until a certain threshold before deleting from the system. Hard would just do it immediately. This was determined by the subject line which usually always included “failure” in it.

]]> By: ziggy http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/comment-page-1/#comment-90 ziggy Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:04:06 +0000 http://jeremiahx.com/2007/08/12/how-to-email-bounce-management/#comment-90 Why not use a regular email address to receive them, no subdomain, then scan the email body for the address that failed? Also, I noticed you delete full quota emails. When I was dumping the emails and processing them somewhat manually to get a list to enter into my crude system, I always added a strike or went back to zero, then deleted if 3 strikes. Why not use a regular email address to receive them, no subdomain, then scan the email body for the address that failed?

Also, I noticed you delete full quota emails. When I was dumping the emails and processing them somewhat manually to get a list to enter into my crude system, I always added a strike or went back to zero, then deleted if 3 strikes.

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