PHP email replies

Hi,

I'm emailing out to my opt-in list, and getting quite a few bounces. Rather
than run a 3rd party application, I just wrote a script myself. Now I'm
trying to get my server to log into my POP3 box, collect the bounced emails
and remove them from the database.

Okay, I've done all of it, up to stripping the email address from the mail
delivery failure message. I guess I need a regular expression to go through
the text of the reply, so I can then remove from the database. However, what
command can I use to strip all emails and put into an array? I want to
ignore the rest of the text.

Thanks

Nick

On 2004-12-09, elyob <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm emailing out to my opt-in list, and getting quite a few bounces. Rather
> than run a 3rd party application, I just wrote a script myself. Now I'm
> trying to get my server to log into my POP3 box, collect the bounced emails
> and remove them from the database.
>
> Okay, I've done all of it, up to stripping the email address from the mail
> delivery failure message. I guess I need a regular expression to go through
> the text of the reply, so I can then remove from the database. However, what
> command can I use to strip all emails and put into an array? I want to
> ignore the rest of the text.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nick
>
>

Won't work that way. Usually, failed returned messages will have a number of
email addies included. You might consider searching for the TO: address in
the orginal email which is usually attached to the failure notification.

However, that said, this is a question best suited for a php usenet group.

Maybe alt.php and there's another in the comp group...I think.

ken

"Kenneth" <kennneth@nowhere.special> wrote in message
news:10rh8p16up6r565@corp.supernews.com...
> On 2004-12-09, elyob <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Won't work that way. Usually, failed returned messages will have a number
> of
> email addies included. You might consider searching for the TO: address in
> the orginal email which is usually attached to the failure notification.
>
> However, that said, this is a question best suited for a php usenet group.
>
> Maybe alt.php and there's another in the comp group...I think.
>
> ken

Thanks Ken, hmm, probably why I was getting stuck. I don't mind pulling out
all the email addresses, at least for testing, so I can see what comes out.
In one message I am testing with, it has 9 email addresses. 5 are the one I
want to remove and the other duplicates are mine and another in the text,
which I will ignore.

I guess a php group would be best, but I prefer this one generally

Thanks

Nick

On 2004-12-09, elyob <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Kenneth" <kennneth@nowhere.special> wrote in message
> news:10rh8p16up6r565@corp.supernews.com...
>> On 2004-12-09, elyob <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Won't work that way. Usually, failed returned messages will have a number
>> of
>> email addies included. You might consider searching for the TO: address in
>> the orginal email which is usually attached to the failure notification.
>>
>> However, that said, this is a question best suited for a php usenet group.
>>
>> Maybe alt.php and there's another in the comp group...I think.
>>
>> ken
>
> Thanks Ken, hmm, probably why I was getting stuck. I don't mind pulling out
> all the email addresses, at least for testing, so I can see what comes out.
> In one message I am testing with, it has 9 email addresses. 5 are the one I
> want to remove and the other duplicates are mine and another in the text,
> which I will ignore.

Assuming your email is kept in one file, then just look for the to: field.
The email addie should be either your email addie, which you can exclude
or the email of a mailing list memeber that you will want to delete.

$fp=file("yourmailbox");

for ($x=i,$x <count($fp); $x++){
if(strcasecomp(substr($fp[$i],0,3),"TO:")==0)

then extract the email and see if its yours, if not then it belongs to
someone to delete.

Keep in mind email addies come in several flavors,

noone@nowhere.special
ken <noone@nowhere.special>

}

Try it might work for your needs

ken