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> We would like to create a list which would have 8,000 subscribers
> initially. The problem is that the E-mail addresses which we currently
> have may be out of date. Is there a way to create a majordomo list, that
> automatically unscubscribes users with invalid E-mail addresses once a
> message is delivred? This would provide us with a fairly accurate list of
> active E-mail accounts for subscribers. Our majordomo server is on an
> HP 10.01 workstation using SendMail as the MTA.
>
You need to write a script to parse out the bad addresses from the bounce
messages you will receive. You will get (for the most part) "User unknown"
bounce messages (the script will need to be tweaked to accomodate slight
variations of this bounce) when your list sends mail to one of these invalid
addresses.
You could either opt to save the messages to a file via your mail reader
and then run the unsubscribe script on that, or you could run a mail
filter like procmail to filter out the user unknown bounces and auto
unsubscribe them. I've done the first method as it's the quick and dirty
solution but the second wouldn't be much harder and involves no human
interaction.
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Noah White Internet: noah@quesera.com
UNIX/Internet/Secuirty Consultant
Quesera Media
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