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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Liston <dliston@netscape.com>
To: Mike Winnett <mwinnett@satchmo.win-uk.net>
Date: 07 December 2000 09:37
Subject: Re: Bounces
>Mike Winnett wrote:
>>
>> I read in the faq how there's a procedure to set up a bounce list
that
>> deals with bounces. Is this difficult to set up? the sysop has
set
>> up the lists with bo bounce procedure, so now that I've added the
>> subscriber list, I get 300 bounce messages a day, and I really can't
>> cope with them all.
>>
>> I don't have access to the unix system myself so I can't set the
bounce
>> system up myself, but I guess it ought to be feasible for the sysop??
>>
>> regards]
>>
>> and thanks for your earlier advice which proved very useful
>>
>> Mike Winnett
>
>The tool provided for managing bounces really does nothing more than
>combine two lines of majordomo commands into one. You can accomplish
>the same thing with;
>
>approve password unsubscribe listname user@address
>approve password subscribe bounces user@address (today's date for
tracking)
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I don't have a login to the unix server so I can't set uup a "bounce"
list myself, though maybe I could get the sysop to do it. From what
you're saying I wold still need to manually send messages though which
is what I'd like to avoid. If I'm getting 300 bounces a day I won't be
able to deal with them manually
>
>There are commercial tools available for automating the handling of
>bounced emails. One of them is called smartbounce and has a "lite"
>version available for evaluation.
>
>Dan Liston
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I downloaded smartbounce lite, it looks like it will only deal with a
single mailing list. The two lists I run each have digests, so I think
that counts as four lists.
though smartbounce could be a help with one list that still leaves three
other lists, all creating bounces.
I guess it could be possible to install four versions of smartbounce in
four different directories and try it that way?
The version for four lists looks rather expensive to buy, especially as
these lists are provided free at my own expense.
The ezmlm that I was using before (and still running at
arsenal-subscribe@lists.pcug.co.uk) dealt with bounces neatly, sending a
probe message to test bounced addresses and removing those that failed
the probe, without any intervention from myself. Looks like majordomo
isn't quite as advanced.
regards
mw
regards
mw
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