Email List Cleaner

[gerkintrigg]

Hi All,

 

I've had a few reported bounce backs from an email list I've collected over the years (but seldom emailed to). I'd like to clean it up before I mail them again - just to make sure I don't get penalised for spam or whatever.

 

My question is this:

 

Is there a free online service (i mean totally free - not free trials, no "free for a little bit" services etc. that I can use?

 

or

 

Is there a script I could use that could verify the email addresses without getting a negative reputation for all the bounce backs - and I know there will probably be a lot.

 

Thanks.

Neil

[mac_gyver]

trying to verify a quantity of invalided email address at the receiving mail server would quickly get your sending server flagged as someone probing the server for valid email addresses (and a lot of mail servers silently ignore email they have no intention or ability to deliver so as to not give feedback to probing attempts.) the server doesn't know if you are trying to find active email addresses vs testing for invalid ones.

 

your best bet would be to take all the bounced email addresses and remove/flag-as-invalid in your list and don't send to them any more, repeat for any future bounced replies.