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Re: Catching bounces/delivery errors

2003-08-26 08:10:29
DZ-Jay wrote:

My organization sends bulk e-mail to our list subscribers (not spam!)
and sometimes some messages bounce for different reasons. 

I think most mail list software already does this. For example,
SmartList catches the bounces and unsubscribes the failing address.

I contemplated using the FROM_MAILER/FROM_DAEMON macros 
but one includes stuff from mailing lists and the other one includes 
automatic responses and vacation/out of office replies.

FROM_MAILER would be most appropriate, in conjunction with checking the
header or something, a la:

:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
* FROM ?? ^^(mailer-daemon|postmaster)@
* SUBJECT ?? ()\<(returned|delivery)\>
bounces

with variables being the canonical header extractions. 

User-Agent: Opera7.11/Win32 M2 build 2887

Cool, that's a first.

-M.

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