Yes. I double checked.

Peace,
Gene

okay - i tihnk i have it. and i cant believe i missed this out. in the email options where you enabled the "-f" option, just above that there is a "Bounce Email Address". set this to your bounce email address.

edited as i made a silly mistake which i figured out straight after

let me know if it's working okay? i still cant understand why you are getting the \ in your message...

it is working.

i had uploaded one of the files to the incorrect directory.

it does seem to have sent all emails successfully now according to the logs. i would be interested in furtherreporting to show tyhe success rate of the email etc.

is there any way of coparing the list of emailed users with next weeks visitors?

is it still sending emails with the \ backslash?

I do plan to update the statistics shown so you can see which users are returning, % effectiveness rate etc etc. i just need to plan how im going to do it so as not to put too many queries on each page.

i think you may have me mixed up with someone else. i have never mentioned a backslash in any of my posts.

is there anything i can do to help get the additional reporting working?

sorry, i did get mixed up lol


feel free to offer suggestions about the information that you might want to see displayed.

I would ideally like to see on the reporting page additional fields to show the following

same basic setup as now showing username valid email bounced etc.

i would also like to see a date when the person was last emailed and a flag of some sort if they have visited since.

also possibly a php file which manages the link in the email. so for instance you have www.myforum.com/reminderparser.php which tracks when someone clicks on the link in the email to come back to the forum.

there may be an easier way of doign this which i dont understand.

perhaps colour coding the usernames to indicate different states such as

to be emailed
been emailed but not returned
been emailed multiple times and not returned
been emailed and clicked through link but not posted
been emailed and clicked through link and posted
been emailed and returned byu other means and posted.

etc etc

basically gather as much info about how effective a specific email has been so different types of email can be tried. was i more successful when i just said please come back or was i more successful when i did a newsletter style email giving them more details about whats happening on the forum?

I tried to send myself a test email and received a Database Error.
The test Email still went through though.