I use Imail server on my web server to handle the email needs of my website (a parenting website), such as sending newsletters, etc. I use a Perl CGI script to send my newsletters, kind of like Subscribe Me Pro, and would like to use the Imail server logs a little more.
I especially would like to figure out: 1) is hotmail blocking my emails? One regular visitor with a hotmail email account says that she no longer receives my newsletters or any mail directly from my server (such as notification from my discussion forums). Can looking at the log help me figure out what is going on with this? What in the logs would indicate I was being blocked or do they usually just trash those emails on their end? 2) how to find email addresses that no longer work? Ideally I would write a Perl script to check the log and write bad email addresses to another file. Once it had 2 or 3 entries on separate days, I would then unsubscribe that email address. Does such a script or program to process the logs exist? Is there something on the same line of the email address that I could search for that would show that the email didn't go through? Thanks for any help or direction to a site that explains how to understand the Imail logs a little more. I know (or think) that using the mailing list functions of Imail could automate these things a little, but I otherwise like the way I am sending my newsletters and would like to continue without switching to a mailing list. Vince Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
