"Sudhakar Chandra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am developing a propreitary mailing list system. Strictly speaking, it is > not exactly a mailing list. I will be using sendmail to send out email to a > bunch of subscribed users. I want to automate the processing of bounces. > Because I am dealing with hundreds of rapidly changing mailing lists, I do > not want to create individual listname-owner@ and listname-bounces@ aliases > in /etc/aliases.
Use mailman, - that can auto-pickup mailman list configurations and redirect them to the proper location (at least, the cvs version of mailman I'm using - 2.1b2+ with exim4 - does this) Bloody hell - it can do this with sendmail as well. Read the README.(EXIM|POSTFIX|QMAIL|SENDMAIL) in the mailman source tree when you get it from CVS. Mailman CVS does VERP as well. > I recall reading somewhere a long time ago that it is possible to configure > sendmail such that any mail coming to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will get This is the default behavior > delivered to the mailbox of username. Could someone tell me where exactly I > can read more about this feature? http://www.faqs.org has a "Plussed Addresses" FAQ by Eli Pogonatus (aka Eli The Bearded). Old usenet guy - and afaik once the moderator of several newsgroups in the alt.sex hierarchy among other things. > i plan to send the email to the mailing list such that bounces come back to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I plan to have an entry under /etc/aliases for > bounces which pipes the email received for [EMAIL PROTECTED] over to a Don't reinvent the wheel. Use mailman or something similar... -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
