Handling Bounced Emails

[Nathan]

I have an opt-in email list of about 1200 subscribers that generates about 150 bounces every time I send out to that list. I have tolerated the bounces for a while, but I'd really like to be able to collect the email addresses from these bounces so I can remove them from my subscriber list.

Does anyone know of the best (and cheapest) way to somehow collect these emails (short of me spending all day going thru each email one at a time)?

[nyc]

The only solution i've seen is to use a newsletter/mailing list script that handles bounces automatically.

http://www.activecampaign.com

and

http://www.octeth.com/

appear to do that -- I haven't tried them yet ...

[esoomllub]

The ways I see to do it are:

1 - See if there is an option in the tool you use to auto-handle these bounces and turn it on (not sure what tool you are using).

2 - Switch to a tool that does do this, many have the ability to import existing addresses from other tools so conversion may not be too bad.

3 - Find someone to do it for you manually at a marginal cost

4 - Sit down and plug it out manually.

After the initial catch-up, it really should not be that bad. After I got my much smaller list (roughly 200 users) up to date, it's nothing to maintain the 2 or 3 each week. I realize your list is bigger, but even 5-10 a week is reasonable to maintain.

[Nathan]

Right now I am using my own PHP script to send to the list. I've tried out Mojo Mail (http://mojo.skazat.com) which has a bounce handler, but I haven't been able to get the bounce handler script to work. I may just end up doing things manually. I'm sure once the list is clean it will be easy to maintain.