Hello Vanessa, > I'm looking for a possibility to extract email adresses out of bounce > messages. > I have a opt-in mailing list(with confirmation and so on, no spam) but > some email addresses expire, can't be delivered and so on. > So when I send a newsletter i get a lot of bounce mails like: <snipped a bit>
You don't say if you are running your mailing list with TB or other software. Anyway, I have a similar situation, so I'll tell you what I do in case it may give you any ideas. I'm running my mailing list (several) with Mercury/32, my mail server. I have a filter (a couple) that will sort all bounced messages to a Postmaster folder. Because there are different type and flavours of bounce messages, I thought it was easier to set up a New message folder template for this folder so that the only thing I have to do is double click on the e-mail "address" appearing on in the text, which will open the editor with a new message with "address" in the To: field and my "folder template". ,----- [ Postmaster folder new message template ] | %From=""%From="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"%- | MSET%Cursor `----- MSET is a QT (Quick Template). Well, because I have two mailing lists, one in Spanish and one in English, I have two QTs: MSETI and MSETE. So, as the cursor is placed right after MSET, all I have to do is type I or E and Ctrl+Space to execute the appropriate QT. ,----- [ MSETE QT ] | REMOVE Noticias_MED %TOADDR | %TO=""%TO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"%- | %SUBJECT="Not"%- | EXIT | %Cursor `----- ,----- [ MSETI QT ] | REMOVE MED_Newsletter %TOADDR | %TO=""%TO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"%- | %SUBJECT="News"%- | EXIT | %Cursor `----- As you can see, the QT includes the appropriate REMOVE command for the list server. %TOADDR gets the e-mail address to remove from the To: field, which was included in To: when I double clicked on the "address". It then clears the To: field and includes the address of the mail list server and a subject because my mail server will not accept messages with a blank subject. It also includes the list server command EXIT although it isn't really needed. So, to remove a bounced address from the corresponding list, all I have to do is: - Double click on the address. - Type I or E and Ctrl+Space - Click Send -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.61 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
