Email bounce handling

[Marcel Cary]

ForwardTrack allows you to set the email address that catches bounces for outgoing email like invites with FT_ERROR_RETURN_EMAIL in config.inc.php.  However, if all the bounces go to a central address, the sender never gets feedback that his/her invite didn't reach its target.

Is there a reason for this?  Is it to support removal of bad addresses from email lists?  Or to make sure the error goes to a legitimate email address?

I'm considering changing the code to send bounces to the "From:" address instead, but wanted to check first.

[Michael Frumin]

good point.  I made the following change to lib/FT/App/CampaignApp.class.php:

        $err_from = (defined('FT_ERROR_RETURN_EMAIL') && FT_ERROR_RETURN_EMAIL)
            ? FT_ERROR_RETURN_EMAIL
            : $from_email
            ;
        $from_name = preg_replace('/[\[\<\]\>]+/i', '', $args['campaign']->title_short);
        $hdrs = array(
                      'From'    => "{$from_name} <{$from_email}>",
                      'Reply-To' => $from_email,
                      'Subject' => $args['campaign']->subject_register,
#                      'To' => $args['person']->email,
                      'Sender' => $err_from,
                      'Return-Path' => $err_from,
                      'Errors-To' => $err_from
                      );

this way, if you just dont define FT_ERROR_RETURN_EMAIL it will use the From email automatically.

you can get the new version of this file from CVS via the instructions at:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=115464

thanks,
mike

[Marcel Cary]

Thanks, I adapted your code snippets to work for invites (by using the sender's name).  For some reason, I didn't find your most recent revision to CampaignApp.class.php in the viewcvs browsable repository, but I'm all set for now.