My client wants to weed out the bad emails she has in her database. I'm guessing however she's sending them out, she's either not getting the bounce backs or it's too manual a process.
When I googled, I found this: https://www.emailhippo.com/en-us/verify-email-address/api/a
I thought I'd ask if anyone here uses something else or has a tip to share?
tia, --Mike
If you want to check if an email address is in a valid format, there are many RegEx expressions that you can use. Easy and free.
If your client is sending out lots of emails and is worried about bounces and "Unsubscribe" functionality, then I'd use a mailing service such as Mandrill by MailChimp. https://mandrill.com/ The world has gotten serious about spam and as programmers, we need to do a better job of steering our clients into a fully functioning email subscription model. Mandrill (and similar) is just such a solution.
From what I hear, Canada has gotten so serious about spam that if they find you not honoring unsubscribe requests they'll send a Royal Mounted Policeman to your house to kick your dog and poke your youngest child in the eye. And then they get mad. Canadians :: Very friendly ... until they're not. http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home
Hth, Kevin
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My client wants to weed out the bad emails she has in her database. I'm guessing however she's sending them out, she's either not getting the bounce backs or it's too manual a process.
When I googled, I found this: https://www.emailhippo.com/en-us/verify-email-address/api/a
I thought I'd ask if anyone here uses something else or has a tip to share?
tia, --Mike
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On 2017-07-14 16:29, Kevin J Cully wrote:
If you want to check if an email address is in a valid format, there are many RegEx expressions that you can use. Easy and free.
It's not a "valid format" she's talking about. She's talking about undeliverables. Things that are properly assembled in name@domain.ext already.
If your client is sending out lots of emails and is worried about bounces and "Unsubscribe" functionality, then I'd use a mailing service such as Mandrill by MailChimp. https://mandrill.com/ The world has gotten serious about spam and as programmers, we need to do a better job of steering our clients into a fully functioning email subscription model. Mandrill (and similar) is just such a solution.
But what she's sending to the recipients is not always the same content; it's differing per customer. I'm not sure at this time if it's invoices or what.
From what I hear, Canada has gotten so serious about spam that if they find you not honoring unsubscribe requests they'll send a Royal Mounted Policeman to your house to kick your dog and poke your youngest child in the eye. And then they get mad. Canadians :: Very friendly ... until they're not. http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home
lol
These kind of services will/should let you send email programmatically from your application. I use Jango for one of my clients to send invoices and other individual emails.
On 14 July 2017 19:46:04 GMT-04:00, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On 2017-07-14 16:29, Kevin J Cully wrote:
If you want to check if an email address is in a valid format, there are many RegEx expressions that you can use. Easy and free.
It's not a "valid format" she's talking about. She's talking about undeliverables. Things that are properly assembled in name@domain.ext already.
If your client is sending out lots of emails and is worried about bounces and "Unsubscribe" functionality, then I'd use a mailing service such as Mandrill by MailChimp. https://mandrill.com/ The world has gotten serious about spam and as programmers, we need to do a better job of steering our clients into a fully functioning email subscription model. Mandrill (and similar) is just such a solution.
But what she's sending to the recipients is not always the same content; it's differing per customer. I'm not sure at this time if it's invoices or what.
From what I hear, Canada has gotten so serious about spam that if
they
find you not honoring unsubscribe requests they'll send a Royal Mounted Policeman to your house to kick your dog and poke your youngest child in the eye. And then they get mad. Canadians ::
Very
friendly ... until they're not. http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home
lol
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To my mind the easiest way would be not to re-invent the wheel and just leverage an existing email list verification service like https://neverbounce.com/
Validating 250,000 email addresses with that would cost you $100
On 2017-07-17 04:19, Alan Bourke wrote:
To my mind the easiest way would be not to re-invent the wheel and just leverage an existing email list verification service like https://neverbounce.com/
Validating 250,000 email addresses with that would cost you $100
Thanks...this looks to be exactly what she wanted.
Kevin - am sitting here at work eating some lunch. I read that one part of your reply below and almost burst out laughing! Funny indeed.
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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From what I hear, Canada has gotten so serious about spam that if they find you not honoring unsubscribe requests they'll send a Royal Mounted Policeman to your house to kick your dog and poke your youngest child in the eye. And then they get mad. Canadians :: Very friendly ... until they're not. http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/home
Hth, Kevin
Would collecting others' email addresses bring you privacy problem? Would those email addresses be used as sending junk fax or email? You sure that the owners of those addresses want you to collect them?
Careful about privacy and other legal issues ... :)
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:53 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
My client wants to weed out the bad emails she has in her database. I'm guessing however she's sending them out, she's either not getting the bounce backs or it's too manual a process.
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