Email address syntax correction with MLW
This action corrects wrong e-mail address in a source file using unique algorithms. Action result example:
SRC 11: jpiracy@adobe.comjB NEW 11: jpiracy@adobe.com SRC 467: "Mr. Potter" <potter@port.com"> NEW 467: "Mr. Potter" <potter@port.com> SRC 724: "martyb" <martyb@ultraint.com%20(train%20to%20trane)> NEW 724: "martyb" <martyb@ultraint.com> SRC 733: "MAXOMENOS" <maxomenos@SPAM=DEATH.hushmail.com> NEW 733: "MAXOMENOS" <maxomenos@hushmail.com> SRC 743: tycho@penny-arcade.com,gabriel@penny-arcade.com NEW 743: tycho@penny-arcade.com SRC 772: krodim@hotmail.comt NEW 772: krodim@hotmail.com SRC 1263: "info@spinnaker.co.jp" <//info@spinnaker.co.jp> NEW 1263: "info@spinnaker.co.jp" <info@spinnaker.co.jp> SRC 2267: "Laurent Clevy" <lclevy@club-internet.fr@subject=[ADF_FAQ]> NEW 2267: "Laurent Clevy" <lclevy@club-internet.fr> SRC 2480: "guylhem@metalab.unc.edu" <guylhem@LDP_NO_SPAM.metalab.unc.edu> NEW 2480: "guylhem@metalab.unc.edu" <guylhem@metalab.unc.edu> SRC 3955: "abuse@ihateclowns.com" <abuse@ihateclowns.com,rodneyb@ihateclowns.com> NEW 3955: "abuse@ihateclowns.com" <rodneyb@ihateclowns.com> SRC 4083: abuse@bfp.net) NEW 4083: abuse@bfp.net SRC 4229: (djackson@aol.net) NEW 4229: djackson@aol.net SRC 11832: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se> NEW 11832: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel@haxx.se> SRC 13550: "lena@lenagames.com" <Lena%20Games> NEW 13550: "Lena Games" <lena@lenagames.com> SRC 19699: mailto:kurtcpa@bright.net NEW 19699: kurtcpa@bright.net SRC 19846: "JAMM <mike.gole@sun.com>" <JAMM%20<mike.gole@sun.com>> NEW 19846: "JAMM <mike.gole@sun.com>" <mike.gole@sun.com>
We achieved 100% error correction in real text address lists we had. However, we suppose MLW to restore 95% of theoretically restorable addresses. Addresses are often written in exotic ways, e.g. (my)*(email)!(com) for spam-protection purposes. Intellect of our software cannot match human fantasy so far.
No correct address can be damaged by this action: MLW only attempts to correct incorrect addresses. The list of processed addresses is stored in the log as shown above. Each line starts with the three-letter code (SRC - source address; NEW - corrected address; INV - invalid address, recovery failed), followed by the address line number, colon, and the address proper.
The Wizard will also offer you the following options:
- Remove ?subject= from addresses. Nominally, providing message subject together with e-mail address is quite allowable, but in most mailing lists this is unnecessary.
- Add mailbox (user-defined) to domains with no mailbox. Some addresses in a list may be absolutely unrecoverable, e.g.:
NetSoap <netsoap.com> Jane Smith <http://www.jsmith.com> mycorp.net Sergio <mailto:sergio.com>
MLW cannot detect a mailbox if it is not contained in an address. If this option is disabled, all addresses of the kind will be considered invalid. If the option is enabled and a mailbox is defined (e.g. "info"), the addresses will be restored as follows:
NetSoap <info@netsoap.com> Jane Smith <info@jsmith.com> info@mycorp.net Sergio <info@sergio.com>
- Remove user-defined substring. MLW will attempt to remove the defined substring from all addresses in the list, both correct and incorrect ones (prior to the restore procedure). The string is case-sensitive (if you set it to "REMOVEIT", the substring "RemoveIt" won't be removed). The substring is searched for throughout the entire address line, including address owner name, if any.
- Recovery emails by known domains list. If this option is enabled, MLW will recovery emails without first-level domain like mike@hotmail, jane@aol to mike@hotmail.com and jane@aol.com. You can add any number of domains to domains list.
- Remove known 'REMOVEIT' substrings. This option may affect on valid emails. Addresses like mikeREMOVEIT@hotmail.com and jane@NOSPAMaol.com are syntactically correct and may exist. If this option is on, MLW will try to recovery such emails to mike@hotmail.com and jane@aol.com.
- Verify emails by first-level domains list. It is the simple check procedure, it compare the first-level domain (e.g., '.com' for jane@somesite.domain.com) with all domains in list. But it helpful to remove 'antispam jokes' in mailing lists, like hahaha@dont.spam, someone@invalid.address and so on. To quality emails verifing we recommend Advanced Maillist Verify.
- Remove unrestored addresses. If the option is disabled, an address which recovery failed would be written in the destination file unchanged.
The action upon a list of one million addresses takes 5 to 60 second on a machine with Intel Pentium III 933 MHz depending on the number of incorrect addresses in the list and on the recovery difficulty.
- Next operation: Filter emails by mask or by regular expression