Re: Reading emails with PHP

Hello, On 12/19/2003 09:54 AM, David T-G wrote:

OK, so on to the script. Just as PHP has classes, perl has modules which implement object code. Just as PHP has PEAR (I think; I'm still getting to know it), perl has CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. One advantage of perl's maturity is an almost ridiculously vast wealth of contributed modules; if you want to do it, someone has almost certainly already written a module for it. [This is already on the way for PHP and PEAR; in just a few years I, too, predict that PHP will be hugely popular.] The one used here is Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser.

This solution has two significant limitations: 1) Many bounces will not be returned as delivery status messages 2) Many users may be register with e-mail addresses which are just forwarding addresses, so the address returned by the report specifies the final address and not the actual address of subscription. A more useful solution is one based on setting the return path address of the message being sent in such a way that you can retrieve the original recipient address from the bounced message recipient address. This has just been discussed here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107150000800005&r=1&w=2 -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/