Start your own bouncely and report mail bounces with a gmail and cakephp
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A few months ago i hire a service to track my mail bounces and clean the old mails from my subscriptors.
The service was good but a bit expensive for me, so i figure an easy way to replicate this service.
The service was good but a bit expensive for me, so i figure an easy way to replicate this service.
Ingredients:
* 1 gmail account
* install the php5-imap ( http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php )
* add the Return-path header to your outgoing mails with the gmail mail or use the gmail account for send mails
* 1 gmail filter
Step 1 Add the return path in the sending process:
Step 2 Add the gmail filter;
put as subject Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
make that never send it to spam
apply the tag Bounces
save the filter
Step 3
Add the bounces to the database.
Step 4
Create the bounce shell.
Put this code vendors/shells/bounces.php
Step 5 Run the shell and have fun!
cake bounces
Written by Eugenio Fage Contact me: eugenioclrc at gmail dot com
* 1 gmail account
* install the php5-imap ( http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php )
* add the Return-path header to your outgoing mails with the gmail mail or use the gmail account for send mails
* 1 gmail filter
Step 1 Add the return path in the sending process:
$gmailaccount='mybounces@gmail.com';
$mailheader ="Content-Type: text/plain;\nReturn-Path: $gmailaccount\n";
mail($address, $mailsubject, $mailmessage, $mailheader."From: $from_address");
Step 2 Add the gmail filter;
put as subject Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
make that never send it to spam
apply the tag Bounces
save the filter
Step 3
Add the bounces to the database.
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `bounces` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`mail` varchar(400) NOT NULL,
`type` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`created` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
Step 4
Create the bounce shell.
Put this code vendors/shells/bounces.php
<?php
class BouncesShell extends Shell {
var $uses=array('Bounce');
function main(){
$server = '{imap.gmail.com:993/SSL}Bounces';
$this->out('Connecting');
$this->connection = imap_open($server, 'mybounces@gmail.com', 'password');
$this->out('Conectado');
$totalMessages=imap_num_msg($this->connection);
while($totalMessages>0){
for($j=1;$j<=20;$j++){
$this->__getErrorBounce($j);
}
imap_expunge($this->connection);
$totalMessages=imap_num_msg($this->connection);
}
}
function __getErrorBounce($j){
$body=imap_body ($this->connection, $j );
$detect_error=preg_match("#([4-5]).0.0#",$body,$error);
$detect_mail=preg_match('#to <(([a-zA-Z0-9])+([a-zA-Z0-9\._-])*@([a-zA-Z0-9_-])+([a-zA-Z0-9\._-]+)+)>#',$body,$match);
if($detect_mail && $detect_error && isset($match[1]) && isset($error[1])){
$this->__addBounce($match[1],$error[1]);
$this->out("$j=>{$match[1]}");
}
imap_delete($this->connection, $j);
}
// error=4 soft bounce
// error=5 hard bounce
function __addBounce($mail,$error){
if($error==5){
// add hard bounce
$type='hard bounce';
}else{
// add soft bounce
$type='soft bounce';
}
$Bounce=compact('mail','type');
$this->Bounce->create(compact('Bounce'));
$this->Bounce->save();
}
}
Step 5 Run the shell and have fun!
cake bounces
Written by Eugenio Fage Contact me: eugenioclrc at gmail dot com
