Hi Aaron,
I am that poor soul you mentioned!
I've looked at VERPS and it looks pretty good for being able to handle
bounces and guaranteeing correct mail addresses, but this still doesn't
address the issue of automated bounce handlers. More to the point: I'm
trying to find out what rules these automated bounce handlers follow to
determine: delete address, try again, no action, etc. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Thomas
At 10:40 AM 7/17/00 -0700, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
>Quoting Thomas Duterme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> I'm new to managing bounces, so please bear with me. I've had a very tough
>> time finding any good documentation which could guide me to building some
>> scripts to parse through my bounces and semi-automate them. I do fairly
>> large mailings at a time, and I'd like to properly manage my bounces.
>> Basically, I'm curious to what everyone else is doing for managing bounces
>> and if anyone has any good online documentation they could point me to.
>
>Man, don't even worry about parsing all those different bounces.
>Another poor soul on this list has said he needs to parse 70,000 or so
>of them--that sounds awfully painful.
>
>Use the method that djb pioneered to handle bounces: VERP. Details at
>http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt. Set QMAILINJECT="r" in your
>environment when sending the mail to generate VERP return paths (see
>the return path of this list message to see what VERP does to the
>return address). See qmail-inject's man page for details on the
>QMAILINJECT environment variable.
>
>Aaron
>
