Email Confirmations

Can anyone help me with this?

We're sending emails to a list from our database. Most of the time the emails go out fine, but when they don't arrive we don't always get a bounce. Is there any way we can tell whether a mail has been delivered? at least to the host server?

Cheers

Tim

 

We're sending from a webpage using CDO. Most of the mail goes out without any problems. Those that don't we often get a delivery failure to my mailbox. Tehse are OK as I can flag the address as dead in our database.It is the ones that we don't get failure notices for that are the problem.


What we're trying to do is ascertain how successful various mailings are. If we send out 250 emails and I get faliures for 20, our stats should be based on 230 not 250. We have tracking built-in so that we know when user views the mail (providing they are viewing it as html and not text), but we can't tell whether all the mails have been received or not.


Any ideas?

 

I was reading about the aspNetMX component(free with dasp). It does a lookup on an email address. Could be what you need.

Check out http://www.aspNetMX.com

Hope this helps,
Andy