Future of SimpleNews Bounced module

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* an important feature for any newsletter scripts. hope the team is working on it.

+1. But it seems that nobody's working on it...

subscribing - love to see progress... not getting my hopes up though.

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* an important feature for any newsletter scripts. hope the team is working on it.

Thanks for your interest. Your requirement for the module is apently bigger than mine. If any one is interested in taking over maintenance of the module let me know. No problem is you don't have a lot of experience in coding, willingness to learn is the most important skill you need.

I am willing to learn. ;D

@sadist,

Give it a try. Write your code and create a patch. Have any specific questions? Do you need anything to get started?

Is this module only possible in D7 do to this #331180: fix pluggable smtp/mail framework patch getting committed? or is it possible in D6 as well?

In D6 this module can only work _without_ a module which defines an 'smtp_library'. Known incompatible modules:
- Mime mail
- SMTP
- Returnpath
The #331180 issue fixes this for D7.

Means it would work with HTML Mail (compatible with Simplenews)?

No. The above list is not complete.

Would there be any interest in another approach that would not need a custom configuration of the MTA or perl?

I'm thinking about a cron task that would connect to a pop or imap server and would unsubscribe any failed emails.

Could this be included in this module or would it be better to start a new effort for this ?

I'm working on a spec sheet and possibly would contribute a module. We need this at work.

philippejadin, feel free to move forward. You can become (co)maintainer as I am not actively maintaining this module and will not do so in the near future.

Hello,

I think this can be achieved more easily with the phpmailer Bounced Mail Handler extension, which is the standard nowadays...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmh/

One could easily get the bounced emails, and then they just need to be unsubscribed from the newsletters.

Raised a separate feature request as well
#1110332: Use Phpmailer Bounce Mail Handler extension

With this feature Simplenews would be a viable competitor to paid alternatives :)

Sutharsan has granted me full access to this project and I will start development for a first release on this module soon. I already have some highly unstable and experimental code up-and-running :)

My focus will be on making bounce handling work as good as possible with the absolute minimum of requirements. I want everyone (from shared hosting to private managed servers) to be able to use this.

Atm the requirements are Simplenews and mimemail. And I will probably rely on BMH to do the bounce handling. Thanks for the great tip giorgio79!

Offcourse nothing is sure at this time in development and we still have a lot of discussion left to do to make final decisions.

I just released a bounce handling module for Simplenews based on BMH:
http://drupal.org/project/Simplenews_BMH

If I'd seen this thread before writing it, I'd have offered to collaborate!

I'd be very happy if we could combine our efforts into 1 module!