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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] script to exctract invalid/returned e-mail
From:       Larry Howe <larry.howe () comjet ! com>
Date:       2006-11-26 14:08:37
Message-ID: 200611260908.38299.larry.howe () comjet ! com
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Daniel, 

Why don't you use a mailing list management program like mailman 
(www.list.org)? You can set parameters such as, after a certain number of 
bounces, disable an address, or delete a subscription. So it will not only 
identify bad addresses, but also remove them for you.

You'll have to feed new subscriptions from the website to mailman, which could 
be done with a shell script, or via a text file.

Larry

On Sunday 26 November 2006 07:51, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Dear list-readers,
>
> Is there a script or a program that can extract the failed addresses from
> mail delivery error messages received and stored in a K-Mail-directory?
>
> Details:
>
> One one of my websites I offer a newsletter and file the addresses in a
> MySql database after a "Confirmed Opt-In" or "Double Opt-In". Over the
> years there are thousands of addresses and hundreds of them became invalid
> meanwhile. So every time I send the newsletter I receive many
> error-messages. I filter them to a separate directory, but then I have to
> copy/paste the addresses manually to a textfile which I finally use to
> update my database.
>
> This is quite a lot of unproductive work and I'd really like to have some
> script or program that can filter out the failed addresses and write them
> to a simple textfile which I can process further.
>
> Because the error messages are very different depending on the mail
> delivery software that responds I am not able to write such a script
> myself.
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Daniel
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