At 15:14 2003-08-27 -0400, DZ-Jay wrote:
Hum... As I explained in a previous post, what my organization does is not
a traditional mailing list like this one,
A mailing list needn't be a two-way medium - a majordomo/mailman/whatever
list can be configured for OUTBOUND only messages.
its personalized advertising campaigns sent to our customers (strictly
opt-in, by the way.)
That calls for running a script that constructs a message from a template
and the provided data.
Our customer e-mail list reside in our enterprise commerce server's
database and whenver we are going to mail, we export the most current list
of addresses based on some sales or demographic criteria and feed it to a
comercial bulk e-mailer, which sends a personalized e-mail to the clients.
If you're sending the addresses out to a third party (hopefully bonded,
etc), then THEY should deal with this problem.
If you're exporting the addresses to a commercial program to do the
mailing, then IT should deal with this problem. I don't know what you paid
for the commercial program to do this, but if it isn't managing the
bounces, then it's crap and probably targeted at spammers.
If your "commerce server" database is SQL, then the mailing script itself
could make the queries, and compose the messages. The procmail front-end
on the bounce address alias could deal with passing the message to a
(perl/etc) script to take the encoded return address, look up the
appropriate record via SQL, and flag it as bounced.
If you think mailman can broadcast personalized messages and allow an
address list to be imported and also provide a list of addresses that
failed, then I'll try it. But I was under the impression that mailman
would not work for this.
I can't tell you the extents of what mailman can or cannot do since I don't
manage any lists with it - I participate on lists which utilize it, and the
return-path is quite obviously encoded, and the purpose of that is well
understood.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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