Bounce Email handling with PHP?

Question

Here is my scenario:

I have 2 email accounts: admin@domain.com and bounce@domain.com.

I want to send email to all my users with admin@domain.com but then \"r

Answer 1

Here is a canned solution to process bounces using IMAP.

I changed the Return-Path header of my Mail instance to a dedicated bounce@xxxxxx.us

The only method easy enough for me to consider viable is the following, which checks via POP3 the dedicated inbox and can handle each email based on the message received.

$inst=pop3_login('mail.xxxxxx.us','110','bounce@xxxxxx.us','pass');
$stat=pop3_stat($inst);
//print_r($stat);
if($stat['Unread']>0){
    echo "begin process

";
    $list=pop3_list($inst);
    //print_r($list);
    foreach($list as $row){
        if(strpos($row['from'],'MAILER-DAEMON')!==FALSE){
            $msg=imap_fetchbody($inst,$row['msgno'],'1');
            if(strpos($msg,'550')!==FALSE){
                echo "handle hard bounce".$msg."

";
                //WHATEVER HERE TO PROCESS BOUNCE
            }   
        }
        else{
            $msg=imap_fetchbody($inst,$row['msgno'],'1');
            echo "not from my server. could be spam, etc.".$msg."

";
            //PROBABLY NO ACTION IS NEEDED
        }   
        //AFTER PROCESSING
        //imap_delete ( resource $imap_stream , int $msg_number [, int $options = 0 ] )
        //commented out because I havent implemented yet. see IMAP documentation
    }   
}   
else{
    echo "no unread messages";  
}


//imap_close ( resource $imap_stream [, int $flag = 0 ] )
//commented out because I havent implemented yet. see IMAP documentation.
//flag: If set to CL_EXPUNGE, the function will silently expunge the mailbox before closing, removing all messages marked for deletion. You can achieve the same thing by using imap_expunge()




function pop3_login($host,$port,$user,$pass,$folder="INBOX",$ssl=false) 
{ 
    $ssl=($ssl==false)?"/novalidate-cert":""; 
    return (imap_open("{"."$host:$port/pop3$ssl"."}$folder",$user,$pass)); 
} 
function pop3_stat($connection)        
{ 
    $check = imap_mailboxmsginfo($connection); 
    return ((array)$check); 
} 
function pop3_list($connection,$message="") 
{ 
    if ($message) 
    { 
        $range=$message; 
    } else { 
        $MC = imap_check($connection); 
        $range = "1:".$MC->Nmsgs; 
    } 
    $response = imap_fetch_overview($connection,$range); 
    foreach ($response as $msg) $result[$msg->msgno]=(array)$msg; 
        return $result; 
} 
function pop3_retr($connection,$message) 
{ 
    return(imap_fetchheader($connection,$message,FT_PREFETCHTEXT)); 
} 
function pop3_dele($connection,$message) 
{ 
    return(imap_delete($connection,$message)); 
}