PHP to ck email & update MySQL?

[admoore]

I manage an automated email reminder program that gets a fairly large volume of returned mail as undeliverable...

Could I write a PHP application to check the reply email address for returns, parse through the data for the bad email addresses and write them to a MySQL database, so that I can compile a list of known invalid addresses for correction or deletion from the list?

TIA,

-Allen

 

[sleipnir214]

Sure, with a stand-alone PHP interpreter.
Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[admoore]

OK,

Bad question...

I know how to SEND email w/ PHP, even VERIFY an email address w/ PHP...

How do I receive email from an existing email account w/ PHP???

-ADM

 

[sleipnir214]

PHP's mail() function will send the email, but it has no function to connect to a server and verify the message. Check out Zend's code vault (

http://www.zend.com/codex.php?CID=11).

There may be some scripts in there.

Some mail servers will barf immediately after the "rcpt to:" directive is issued, but there is no guarantee of that -- some will quietly accept the email and bounce it after the connection is broken. So the only way to guarantee an email was received is either through the use of delivery reciepts (not all servers of clients support them) or by sending the mail and waiting some length of time for a bounce message. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[admoore]

OK,
FWIW I found a solution to accessing a POP3 server via PHP w/ a POP3 PHP class available at:

http://phpclasses.teorica.com/browse.html/package/2.html

Very useful stuff here...

-Allen