how do i track the bounced emails? - php

Question

I would like to track the bounced emails of that has been sent from my server. I read few stuffs and found that the bounced emails are stored in mailbox and can be detected by reading the mailbox files directly.
check for bounced mails with php
Now i would like to get some idea how do i read the mailbox files of my server? Do i need to run a php script file manually after sending the mail to record the bounced email to my database? Do i need to parse the email contents to findout which email has been bounced?
I am targeting the stuff for my php server with pop email access.

Answer 1

Here is how I connect to the incoming mail server at one.com
$inbox = imap_open('{imap.one.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX', 'your#address.com', 'xxxxxxxx') or die('Cannot connect: ' . print_r(imap_errors(), true));
/* grab emails */
$emails = imap_search($inbox,'ALL');
/* if emails are returned, cycle through each... */
if($emails) {
/* put the newest emails on top */
rsort($emails);
/* for every email... */
foreach($emails as $email_number) {
$message = imap_fetchbody($inbox,$email_number,2);
$pieces = explode(" ", $message);
foreach($pieces as $piece){
$findme = '#';
//$findme2 = '.com';
$pos = strpos($piece, $findme);
if ($pos !== false) {
echo $piece;
}
}
}
}
The email address that bounced is in the body of the message and I echo it to the browser.