I would like to suggest adding a new "bounce address action" maybe like "Set Subscriber to Bounced Email" to differentiate subscribers whose email is UNCOMFIRMED and one we know has bounced. One could have an unconfirmed email address that is actually valid. A bounced email is one we know is INVALID. This would enable someone to differentiate between the email addresses (unconfirmed and valid / bounced) and then allow filtering on that "bounced" status. once filtered, the site admin can delete those subscribers who has an invalid email address.
Here is my motivation. We have end users who enter email addresses on their team pages for all team contacts. There could be 1-n number of contacts with email addresses entered. There is no process to actually confirm them. We then import them info NSPro using the following function in our adapter.
Code:
public function addSubscriber($name, $email)
{
$datetime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$mailinglist = array($this->defaultlist);
//add_or_update_subscriber($name, $email, $datetime, 0, $mailing_lists, $update = true, $source = 'component', $source_id = 'auto')
add_or_update_subscriber($name, $email, $datetime, 0, $this->defaultlist);
}
This uses the NSPro add_or_update_subscriber function in the lib.php file. I believe the default status of the subscriber when using this function is 'unconfirmed' - I'll need to check.
It just seems to me that others may benefit from being able to differentiate subscribers who are UNCONFIRMED and those who are UNCONFIRMED AND BOUNCED.
Let me know your thoughts!
Chris
