Hello,
A few months ago I inherited a majordomo list (weekly newsletter) of 120,000
users and was tasked with setting it up on a new server without being able
to see the setup on the old server.
I think I have overcome all the hurdles of setting up and delivering
messages to such a large list (bulk_mailer, sendmail timeout tweaks, etc),
with the exception of the fact that roughly 30% of these addresses are
bouncing because the previous list admin wasn't keeping up with removing
them!
I don't relish the thought of manually bouncing 36,000 addresses, so I'm
looking for a better solution... even if I could just get the bounced
addresses logged somehow, I could at least sed/awk it and send those to the
bounce script. I already got a co-worker to write a script that looks
through the syslog and bounces any email that experiences a "delay=5+" (5
days and still timing out), but that doesn't help me with invalid addresses.
Platform is Solaris, sendmail and majordomo, I have access to install
anything (free) so I'm open to any suggestions... has anyone written a
similar script? Is there a sendmail setting to log invalid addresses
somehow? Anything?
Thank you very much!
Chris Busse
cbusse@ixl.com
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