Re: Trapping Emailer Errors

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 40697
interpreted = N
texte = If you can, set the from address to a known valid address and then set the reply-to to the person submitting the message.That or do error checking when the form is filled out for a valid formatted email, but that won't catch all bad addresses.Daleon 19/6/02 4:56 pm, Tom Duke at tduke@technofutures.ie wrote:> Hi, > > Is there a way to trap emailer error messages. I recently found out that > many of my submission forms were not getting through due to an incorrect > email address a month after the problem began. > > With the help of my ISP I managed to retrieve the messages that did not go > through from the 'completed' folder. If I had been able to somehow trap the > emailer errors and display them in a db or something then I could have > identified this problem much earlier. > > Thanks > > - Tom > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Trapping Emailer Errors (Tom Duke 2002)
  2. Re: Trapping Emailer Errors (Alain Russell 2002)
  3. Re: Trapping Emailer Errors (drt - lists 2002)
  4. Trapping Emailer Errors (Tom Duke 2002)
If you can, set the from address to a known valid address and then set the reply-to to the person submitting the message.That or do error checking when the form is filled out for a valid formatted email, but that won't catch all bad addresses.Daleon 19/6/02 4:56 pm, Tom Duke at tduke@technofutures.ie wrote:> Hi, > > Is there a way to trap emailer error messages. I recently found out that > many of my submission forms were not getting through due to an incorrect > email address a month after the problem began. > > With the help of my ISP I managed to retrieve the messages that did not go > through from the 'completed' folder. If I had been able to somehow trap the > emailer errors and display them in a db or something then I could have > identified this problem much earlier. > > Thanks > > - Tom > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ drt - lists

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