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Bounced mail Handling in PHP - Any up-to-date solutions?

Asked 2011-04-06T19:21:12.893
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I need to do some bounced mail processing using PHP. Going through the e-mails is no problem, but investing the resources in writing our own library to parse the bounced e-mails is very undesirable.

There are 3 PHP solutions that I've found that are supposed to be for processing bounced mail, but they are all way out of date and no longer maintained, from what I can see. (PHPList, PHPMailer-BMH, Bounce Handler @ PHPClasses.org)

Does anyone know of an up-to-date set of rules for processing bounced e-mails? I don't necessarily need any handling logic, even just an up-to-date ruleset would be satisfactory.

Thanks for any assistance.

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its easier than you think to write this yourself.

You simply set the bounce back path in the headers. Then set up that email address to run a processing script. you obviously would need to send some form of user id.

I have used PHPList before and find it fine, there are better services to do what you need but obviously there is a cost for them.

Bounces occur when the address doesn't exists or the mail server sends it back. Some mail servers will not reply (as a security feature) so accuracy won't be the best.

A lot of the standalone/libraries offer extra features working out which links were clicked and by who working out who read the email. etc

these things are easy to achieve but take resources.

Let me know if there is anything else you need help with

answered 2011-11-19T19:29:30.233

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