"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

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