Re: FW: How to redirect bounced emails to /dev/null instead of moderator ?

Martin MOKREJŠ <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.smartlist.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Kapoor, Nishikant X wrote:

> > At times, subscribers in my mailing list have their quota
> > full (or their mail server is down, etc. etc.) and as a
> > result, postings to their addresses bounce. All these bounced
> > emails are then coming back to me since I am the moderator of
> > the list. I am managing three moderated lists, each having
> > 1000+ subscribers and so, these bounced emails are turning
> > out to be quite overwhelming.
> >
> > Is there a way to redirect these bounced emails to /dev/null
> > instead of moderator ?

Install procmail o so that it is used when emails get's delivered to you
and put into your $HOME/.procmailrc

:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
$HOME/mail/daemon.mbox

:0:
* ^MAIL_DEAMON
$HOME/mail/daemon.mbox


That will catch all of the bounced messages. But only those related to the
lists. So add a line or two to the conditions to check they originated
only from a list (note, you will have to check BODY of the mail for
listnames).

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