[AccessD] Email Problem

You can't check an address without sending a message to it.
(Well there is the SMTP VERIFY command, but most servers
don't honour it to avoid disclosing valid addresses to spammers)

I use Blat.dll to do this sort of automated mailing. Every transmission is logged 
in a text file which you can programmatically check for errors afterwards. It also 
returns error codes which you can use to create your own logging routine.  


Having said that how about a standard error trap:

Do
   On error goto trapit:
   Docmd.sendmail... or whatever
   On error goto 0
loop.........
..........
exit function
trapit:
if error = -21472220977 then
   Log toAddress
   resume next
end if
.......


with your own custom Log() function


On 22 Sep 2008 at 13:17, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access  wrote:

> Dear List:
>  
> My day for questions.  I'm sending emails automatically, unattended, from
> this app - scheduled to run at night.  When the email contains an invalid
> address it generates an error "-21472220977 - the server rejected one or
> more recipient addresses.  The server response was 550 5.1.1 User Unknown.
> Possible bad email address"
>  
> then it lists all of the addresses in the To: CC: and BCC: fields, and the
> process stops until the user comes in, sees the message and clicks OK.  At
> which point they don't really know what address was bad.
>  
> I suppose I could use On Error Resume Next at the line which calls the email
> send routine.  Of course, that way the user will never know that there was a
> bad address and that the report didn't go out.  So I think that's not a good
> solution.
>  
> However, is there a way to verify addresses before sending an email?  Or is
> there a better approach to this problem?
>  
> MTIA
>  
> Rocky Smolin
> 
> Beach Access Software
> 
> 858-259-4334
> 
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