RE: [PHP] PHP/Sendmail interaction : how to get rid of wrong emails

Well on submission of the email you could try contacting their mail server and pretend to a have a mail for them using SMTP. If you get a "recipient ok" or similar message.. ,thre is a code for it, then at least the server accepts mail for that address. You might be better off croning this rather than have the user wait on a http request. Alternatively there is a perl mod that does this as well. Secondly you could write a script that downloads the mail from root and deletes out the database anything that bounces. You could even delete these messages from the root account once done HTH Regards Jon -- Jon Farmer Õ¿Õ¬ Systems Programmer, Entanet www.enta.net Tel +44 (0)1952 428969 Mob +44 (0)7968 524175 PGP Key available, send blank email to pgpkey@bctech.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Stadtlich [mailto:Stadtlich@mediaworx.de] Sent: 28 August 2001 15:08 To: 'Php-General (E-Mail) Subject: [PHP] PHP/Sendmail interaction : how to get rid of wrong emails Hi all I'm facing the Problem that lots of my users are too stupid to write their email correct. When i mail them with php a return email is send to me by their mailserver, which results in LOTS of mail for the root account. Can i get sendmail to put the returned emails in a file? so that i can check that file with php and delete those mails from my DB ? or is there a way to check the email when they enter it in a form (online versus their mailserver)? i already check for wrong email syntax, but that does not solve the problem... Sebastian -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net