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Subject: Re: Bad address bounces
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:33:26 -0500
To: Ijon Tichy <hardrock @ dse-nets . com>
Cc: Majordomo Users <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>, Majordomo Worker <majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008071323590.9739-100000@Yog-Sothoth.dse-nets.com>

I would assume that there must be some common header or body
lines that could be used to filter on, and once matched, parse
the body for the listname and bouncing address.  Autobounce
used to do this well, and some other list managers have this
capability built in (smartlist, MJ2, listserv).  I am hoping
someone has a stand-alone utility to do this for majordomo.

Dan Liston

Ijon Tichy wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Dan Liston wrote:
> 
> > How are people handling bad addresses in their
> > subscriber lists?  I know about the bounces list,
> > and the bounce command (from the command line),
> > but how can this be automated?
> 
> Because of the variation in bounce messages, and the fact that some of
> them are barely readable at the best of times, I usually just do it all by
> hand.  Several times a week i scan through the admin account and remove
> all bouncing email addresses by hand from the list files.  This includes
> over-quota as well as dead address bounces.
> 
> I only maintain one high-traffic list and one almost-no-traffic list so
> it's pretty easy to do.
>



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