I’m managing a mailing list of around 1,000 addresses. I ain’t spamming anyone: they have all agreed to be on my company list by filling in a form.
They’re stored (manually) in a .CSV file. When I send out a news item or whatever, I load the CSV file into a program called ‘Group Mail’, and it bulk-mails everyone. No problem, except that maybe 200 of the addresses are now dead, and the dead mails bounce back into my inbox.
Does anyone know of any kind of automated way of establishing whether an email is dead or not? Or indeed of extracting the relevant addresses from the multiple multi-format mails in my inbox and stripping them out of the .CSV file? Currently it’s horribly time-consuming, and I never get any of them. (I am not a programmer, nor do I know how to use Linux and MajorDomo or anything like that.)
set up a new mail box and not care about the e-mails which are bounced back.
Alternatively you can set up your mailbox to block those mails which are bounced back. (the ones with the mail deliver subservice undeliverable something like that). That might block legitimate e-mails that you send though. But on a 2ndry e-mail box, you shouldn’t care I suppose.
Actually, I hadn’t thought of just ignoring them. I was trying to keep the list’s integrity high, but in the cheapskate way I’m doing things, that isn’t really important, is it?
Maybe that’s what I should indeed do, unless anyone knows of another solution!
