Bounce Problems: Solution Needed
As we use more automatic notifications, we are running into an
increasingly frustrating problem: bad emails. It is my understanding now
that the amazon mail-server pushpage.org and schoolnotifications.org
are using mark emails bad for up to 2 weeks after just one soft or hard
bounce., regardless of the "bad" state indicated in WH. While I can
understand a hard bounce, we often have users with full mailboxes, etc
that create a temporary soft bounce. This is poorly communicated, and
even harder to diagnose.
The bounce work-list is cumbersome at best, and is only available for
pushpage. We need a better solution to manage bounced email addresses,
including a way to remove the bad marker and restore email services to
our constituents in a more timely manner. We depend on notifications and
pushpages to communicate often very time sensitive information to our
constituencies, and have the expectations that mail will reach them.
In short, we really need:
1. More transparency about the bounce protocols, including unifying the
Amazon mailserver "bad" status with WH. It's frustrating trying to
diagnose why a parent is not receiving an email when they are marked bad
by Amazon, and not by WH.
2. A updated bounce worklist than enables speedy diagnosis (including
return headers) and correction, and includes all modes of website
communication including notifications.
I'd be curious to know how other schools are handling this issue, and in particular, the resolution of bad emails.
I would second this, but I would also add a way to globally fix a group of users who may have the same ISP that gets flagged several times a year. We really struggle with Verizon flagging pushpages and notifications and would love to ability to undo the bad email flag en masse with a filter option.