Ok. Interesting. I think I will look into procmail to filter out garbage since I want unsibscribe requests and the like to go to a tech support mail account.
That brings me to another question - what's an accurate method of counting the number of bounces? I was grepping the bounce log and counting the number of bounces for my newsletter. That will only work however if I wipe the bounce log every few days - and even then I won't get a very accurate count... Also - as far as stats go, in the smtp log, is that a fair count for how many messages really got sent? I don't care so much about how many people actually read the messages, but my sales team wants a fairly accurate count of how many people are really getting the newsletter... Thanks -jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Kutter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Limited posting > This sounds familiar! Only we get ~1800 per edition of newsletter... doctors really >love their "Your message has been received" and "I'm out of the office today" >vacation settings. :-) > > Quick and dirty answer - you could set your Reply-To to some other location. That >will of course direct not only the vacation messaging, receipt-acknowledgements, and >other bargle to that reply-to, but also all the unsubscribes, tech-question mail, and >whatnot. You *can * route it to the bitbucket if you like (e.g. an alias that points >to /dev/null) or you can route it to a box you can > sift through (manually or otherwise) at your convenience. > > Bounce and rejection notices should still come back to the apparent sender of the >message (in your case, listowner), which can be handy if you want to count bounces >(which we do). > > =) > Amanda > > > Jim Kutter wrote: > > > Hello again folks. You've all been tremendous help for me recently, but I have a >another question. > > > > I am using mailman to manage a newsletter list (with some other lists - but that's >the primary use), and obviously I don't want to allow public postings to a >newsletter. So I set the e-mail address of the person who composes the newsletter as >the only one allowed to post to the list. So, in order to protect my users from their >users :) I set the list to hide the sender of the message. > > > > So here's the problem - the newsletters go out saying they're from >newsletter-owner, and the admin of the list (me) gets all the "Out of office", >"remove me pls!", "undeliverable" et al. This amounts to ~400 e-mails whenever the >letter goes out... > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks > > -jim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
