From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 20:39:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C080037B56E for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc07-20.idx.com.au [203.166.2.20]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA04841; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:38:56 +1100 From: Danny To: Tanner Nathaniel-P29665 , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: bounce handling Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:41:11 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031915422501.00895@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why aren't you implementing majordomo and some program such as smartbounce which are suitable jobs for the job. Why make your job differcult? On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Tanner Nathaniel-P29665 wrote: > I have a FreeBSD virtual server that sends out emails to a few different > lists that people can sign up for on my web site. I don't use any mailing > list program like majordomo, rather I store addresses in a text file, and > then to send a message I open a pipe to sendmail, using Perl, for each email > address. Inefficient but it works for now. > > My lists are fairly small (in the hundreds), but I'm starting to be bothered > by bounces. > > What would the most efficient way be to handle them automatically? > > Also, I originally looked at Majordomo and some other possible solutions, > but it didn't seem worthwhile, since I don't have lists that people post to, > just newsletter-type emails that I send out. Is there a simple and > effective mailing list solution that I should move to? > > Thanks, > > Nate Tanner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message