Dear drupal users, I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time. I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users with an invalid email. For this I thought about a script that connects to the mail server of the entered email address and check with a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO if the email address is valid. In case it is not, block or delete the user. Before I now start to hack a little script for this, is there maybe already something available, I can use? Thanks, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
Maybe start with http://drupal.org/project/bounce_handler which doesn't contain an active release but http://drupal.org/node/1145398/release shows a 6.x-1.x-dev release. You could use it to begin your coding. Earnie On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> wrote:
Dear drupal users,
I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time. I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users with an invalid email.
For this I thought about a script that connects to the mail server of the entered email address and check with a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO if the email address is valid. In case it is not, block or delete the user.
Before I now start to hack a little script for this, is there maybe already something available, I can use?
Thanks, Matthias
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Clear All Unwanted Things And Unwanted Users. And Look That There Are No Umwanted Massages Or Things Like That. Thankyou On 7/17/12, Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Maybe start with http://drupal.org/project/bounce_handler which doesn't contain an active release but http://drupal.org/node/1145398/release shows a 6.x-1.x-dev release. You could use it to begin your coding.
Earnie
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> wrote:
Dear drupal users,
I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time. I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users with an invalid email.
For this I thought about a script that connects to the mail server of the entered email address and check with a MAIL FROM/RCPT TO if the email address is valid. In case it is not, block or delete the user.
Before I now start to hack a little script for this, is there maybe already something available, I can use?
Thanks, Matthias
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Am 17.07.12 15:34, schrieb Earnie Boyd:
Maybe start with http://drupal.org/project/bounce_handler which doesn't contain an active release but http://drupal.org/node/1145398/release shows a 6.x-1.x-dev release. You could use it to begin your coding.
thanks for your answers. I decided to write a little perl script which works absolutely fine. Bye, Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- Rich Cook
Take a look at the Email_Verify module. Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
________________________________ From: Matthias Fechner I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time. I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users with an invalid email.
Email_Verify doesn't handle a bounce though. It only verifies that the address is good to begin with; and when I tried it last, had a rate of false negatives/false positives that I could not live with. The better way to manage it is to handle the bounces as they come back to you allowing for the possibility of a good server being down temporarily so you want to make sure you have a limit count on the bounces before doing the block. Earnie On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Take a look at the Email_Verify module.
Nancy Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.
________________________________ From: Matthias Fechner I have a site with some 1000 users which is now up for a very long time. I want to clean-up the user database and delete (or block) all users with an invalid email.
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