By bengtan on

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has suggestions on implementing email bounce processing for Drupal 5.x.

I'm currently investigating integrating mailman with Drupal and using mailman's bounce processing capabilities, but it does feel a bit like overkill, and if there are simpler suggestions, I'd be very interested.

Email bounces are surely not an uncommon issue. For example, there must be some old accounts on drupal.org which have dead email addresses by now. How's bouncing handled there?

Thanks.

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styro commented

I may be missing something here, but for Drupal to detect bounces it would need to have a mailbox to collect the bounce messages in and then periodically trawl through it looking for them.

Either that or Drupal would need to hand off that to another more suitable application (eg mailman) that is already designed to collect and process email.

Given how hard email processing can be in the real world with crackers, spammers and non standard broken mail clients/servers etc, I'd rather stick with Drupal handling the website and leave the email handling to a specialist application.

I imagine drupal.org probably doesn't handle bounces at all

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bengtan commented

I agree with your observations. Processing bounced emails isn't really a website task, it's more for an email list manager. However, I expect this is a fairly common occurrence, and I'm surprised I can't find any mention of someone who's done it for Drupal 5.x.

For past versions of Drupal, there has been enewsletter/bounced_email or massmailer/phplist, but these seem like stranded modules. Neither gives me confidence they will work with Drupal 5.x, plus I am dubious about their effectiveness.