Re: Categorize Email Error from majordomo

Or perhaps a small perl routine that pops email from an account that is used to
forward returned email to.
The routine could parse for email address and error, given a set of regular
expressions to match, then
try and locate creater of email addresses and send notification that there is a
problem, so that the creator
could fix.

Previous email:
Perhaps just a program that we/I could run on current lists that would extract
email addresses and validate
them without actually sending an email to the user?  Maybe something like just
pinging the mailbox to see if
is active and not full?

CHarlie

>>> "Daniel Liston"  4/22/2006 12:18 AM >>>
Back in 1997 there was a perl script called bouncefilter that had promise
of doing what you are looking for.  In 1999 bouncefilter.pm was only for
majordomo II.  I have not heard of any further development, but you might
google on it to see what comes up.  It used to be open source

There was also autobounce, designed for majordomo in 1994.  The first few
lines of comments sound more inline with what you are looking for, but it
will automatically remove bounce addresses from your lists.

Autobounce, bouncefilter, or smartbounce sites could not be found, sorry.
I may be able to cobble together the pieces you need if you want to work
with it.  You will really need to dig in the old archives for any help 
using or setting them up, if the docs are not sufficient.  I got to the
point that any 4.x.x error was flagged for 10 days, then deleted, and an
error of 5.x.x would be removed from my lists immediately.

Dan Liston

Charlie Smith wrote:
> We are getting a number of returned email messages, with different reasons,
from
> all kinds of different programs and post offices.
> 
> Is there a program someone has written that we can feed these returns
through,
> or trap them into a list of  addresses and reason for return?


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