Bounce Handlers

Over time you'll experience bounces, these are emails returned to your mailbox that for some reason could not be delivered. This could be from a variety of reasons, but a few popular issues are:

Email rejected as spam
The email address no longer exists (either deleted or temporary email was used)
The mailbox is full

Maian Responder has a simple bounce handler function that can be set up to read a mailbox to detect bounced addresses and attempt to remove them from the database to keep your mailing lists up to date. Messages are flagged as bounced messages based on the bounce flags you specify. Please note:

Some messages that have encoded message bodies may not be able to be processed.
Be careful what flags you specify. Some flags may accidentally delete valid emails.
The bounce handlers may not always be 100% effective. In which case delete messages manually.
Only IMAP accounts are supported.

Note that if you use a third party SMTP service, you may need to remove subscribers manually if they unsubscribe.

A icon denotes if a bouncer is active.

Click the icon to add a new bounce handler.

Click the icon to update the bounce flags flags that will help the bounce handlers identify bounced messages.

Click the icon to reveal search box to search bounce handlers.

Click the icon to run bounce handler manually. This is not shown if the bouncer is disabled.

Click the icon to edit handler.

Use the checkboxes provided to delete bounce handlers.

Once you have set up some bounce handlers you'll need to set up a cron job to automatically read the following system file in the root of your installation:

control/cron/bouncers.php

More info on Cron Jobs here.