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Manual cleanup of email bounces

Related: item3756-Manage-email-bounces

This will soon be easier: https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/merge_requests/1879

Steps

  1. Look at most recent bounce
  2. Determine email address it was sent to.
  3. Determine type of bounce and course of action
    • soft bounce
      • vacation message, just delete message or archive?
    • hard bounce
      • email account no longer exists: delete from our system
    • other bounces
      • Your mail server is flagged as a spammer. You can contest here: http:// (We should do this once our system stops sending spam)
  4. Search through whole data set for all uses of that email, and implement decision

Things to watch out for

  • 1 hard bounce is not necessarily enough to delete email.
  • A single bounce message can be for many emails (if you multiple emails to the same domain). So you can't delete it until you have addressed all of it.

Essential

  • It's great to have a tool to categorize between soft and hard bounce, and count. But we also need to be able to read each email. Thus Cypht access somehow.

Potential feature request

  • Add an exclusion list for emails never to be written to
    • temporary (ex.: 30 days)
    • permanent



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