Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:31:30 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> Subject: Re: Tools to wash email-lists for bouncing addresses Message-ID: <20050114173130.GY42653@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <4B078DEB-664F-11D9-97FA-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <20050114131102.GA95157@totem.fix.no> <4B078DEB-664F-11D9-97FA-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:11:13PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > Use Mailman for your mailing list software; Mailman is smart enough to > understand bounces from list traffic and disable or remove old > addresses. The FreeBSD lists are using Mailman now... ezmlm-managed lists do as well, but it's married to qmail, which might not be useful for you... As described on other lists, you'll need to be able to generate a message for each recipient with their subscribed address somehow encoded in the envelope sender address, such that when a bounce returns to the list manager, that software can extract it. Under the qmail universe, such a construct is called a VERP (Variable Envelope Return Paths): <http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt>; As far as I know, ezmlm was the first MLM to handle bounces in this manner, but many other MLMs now utilize similar features... In fact, a Google search on 'VERP' reveals many hits for other MTA/MLM combinations. > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA BSD admin/developer at large
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