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    Posted: 04 March 2007 at 12:30pm

I have a problem with sending mass emails within my forum...a number of old members who no longer visit, also no longer use their email accounts assigned to their login.  This means I receive hundreds of 'failure notices' after sending out a mass mail.

Is there anyway of changing these email addresses to a false email address, which mass mail will ignore, and won't attempt to send to it.  This means less email traffic, and no bounces back to me.
 
Anyone have any ideas?
 
I suppose the other option would be to change the email addresses to my own, but this would generate un-needed email traffic.
 
How do other people get over this problem / annoyance?  ...I don't want to delete the accounts, due to posts / topics created by these users.
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Any ideas?
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i think it must be a feedback to define theese email adresses, likes activation account.
for example you can send a email confitmation mail to all users and give a specific time to click confirmation link at this mail. after the time ends if some users didnt send feedback value, you can use a code for clear those users' email value (not deleting users). if their email value empity the mass mail doesnt try to send posts to them...


Edited by gölge - 06 March 2007 at 3:27pm
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Oli, could you amend the mass emailer to only send to active accounts and make sure these ones with old accounts/addresses are set to be non-active?
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Roger, that sounds like a good idea!
 
I'll have a look at the code and see what I can find.  Would have thought it would be easy to implement, as there's already code in place to send to specific groups only.
 
Cheers dude, I'll keep you posted!
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I'm stuck...
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LOL.. If it helps I can feel your pain.

After sending a mass email to my entire memberbase recently, I got 1700 bouncebacks to my own email address (via a re-direct for the Admininstrator emails addy).

Absolute ball breaker!
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And it's not just the first thousand emails, as some mail servers keep trying X amount of times...

 
Anyone interested in developing this mod?
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