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As admin for a forum with 500+ users, a constant irritation is forum bounce messages resulting when users are set up to receive subscription or digest notifications, but are no longer using their nominated email address (or their ISP detects MyBB messages as spam)

I would like a way for MyBB to act as an e-mail client for the address it sends messages from, and thus to auto-detect and manage email bounce messages and spam rejection messages - automatically dropping users from future mailings unless they sign in and untick a box "suspend all forum messages to this address", and tick another box saying "I will now add this e-mail address to my e-mail client contacts list, and mark all forum messages detected as spam as 'not spam' "

Has anyone been working on this or found a way that does not require administrator intervention every time?

Cheers
That's not really a job for MyBB . You can check some solutions here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10117...g-with-php
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55718...-solutions
THanks for you reply, but not sure why not a job for myBB?  For sure it looks to be technically difficult, but ergonomically, logically and philosophically, surely the management of communications sent by MyBB intrinsically belongs with MyBB.    Yahoo Groups for all its faults does notice when emails it sends bounce, and adjusts user accounts accordingly.

I would not expect to go outside my desktop email client to detect whether there has been a response to an email it sent (whether a bounce message or otherwise), just as I would not expect to go outside any other mass mail system to detect bounces or unsubsription requests

If not needing to distinguish the particular reason for the bounce, any email response at all from a user email address to your MyBB no-reply address could perhaps be enough to trigger a suspension of mass email to that user ?  Would that simplify one aspect?  Whether a user has changed email addresses, has ISP spam filtering issues, has gone on holiday, or wants to reply to a message as a way to unsubscribe without going through the painful rigmarole of finding or retrieving passwords logging in to userCP etc   - all are valid reasons to suspend further mailings to that user, until they positively decide otherwise .
(2015-03-08, 12:07 PM)ArchPrime Wrote: [ -> ]but not sure why not a job for myBB?

Because it's a time-consuming feature and I haven't seen nearly any requests for it. Even paid forum scripts such as IPB or vB don't have an option for it by default.

So I'm positive this won't make into 1.8. Feel free to suggest it for 2.0 (another thread you can bump: http://community.mybb.com/thread-117743.html) or request a plugin though.