I am confused. If you already have a list of addresses that you know
are bouncing, and want to remove them from majordomo. Why would you
try to contact the known "bad" address to tell them they are removed?
All you will do is get another bounce.
If you just want to send commands to majordomo to remove them, put all
the commands in a single email for majordomo to process.
--
To: majordomo@your.domain
From: whoever@whereever.com
Subject: blank
<blank line>
unsubscribe <listpasswd> listname bad@address.one
unsubscribe <listpasswd> otherlist bad@address.two
etc.....
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As for creating a file with a datestamp as a name, have you tried this?
touch `date +%Y%m%d`
or
echo "user@address.bad deleted from $list" >> `date +%Y%m%d`
Dan Liston
Dr. Tim wrote:
> I have been managing a *single* ist for quite some time that has lots of
> AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and MSN account which mean people always FORGET to
> u_ns_ub themselves. So I have created a cron job that does the
> following.
>
>
> It takes the results of my procmail processing of all those failures to
> get mailed and groups them into one file and then
> sorts them to determine HOW long that they have NOT been getting their
> messages. Basically 5 days on the individual messages and 30 days on
> the digested type. (not 'fair' I know)
>
> Then it processes the file and creates a list of users I want to
> delete. I then create a file which is just a list of email addresses
> and I presently create a file from that list to 'source" that emails the
> persons that
> they have been deleted and then u_ns_bs them by emailing
> majordomo.
>
>
> The problem is that I might have a list of 500 people to delete and
> sourcing a file that looks like 500 lines of:
>
> mail -s"YouB_bad" your@bad.address.com < letter.You.be.gone
>
> often generates at the end of the processing
> that I have TOO many files open on the system.
>
> So I want to be able to source some file that I can get MORE Than one
> person on the to line. Then I have a factor less of emails to send.
>
> Best solution would be to actually get envelopes of a 100 at a shot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I did think about just creating a momemntary list
> and putting all the people to be deleted in the list and then
> send ONE message to this new majordomo list and then deleteing the list.
>
> BUT I can get the same problem when I email majordomo deleteing them all
> I have to right now do it 1 at a time and sourcing a 500 line file to
> just
> mail to majordomo and delete them is a hastle.
>
> I DON"T want to run a diff on my list and the real list to create a new
> one. That does work slick. But the 'paper trail' of when I deleted
> these people automatically is maintained in the log file.
>
> I suspose I could use the diff routines and keep track of the files if
> someone could tell me how do from a source file create a file that is
> genereated with a name associated with todays date. That would solve my
> problem! So if anyone can tellme how froma file I am source can create a file
> with say, todays date, as its name that would help!
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