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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] script to exctract invalid/returned e-mail
From:       "Werner Joss" <werner () hoernerfranzracing ! de>
Date:       2006-11-26 13:59:32
Message-ID: 15372.4383.85.212.174.65.1164549572.squirrel () webmailer ! hosteurope ! de
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> 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?

I don't think there is one to use 'out-of-the-box' :)

> 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.

why not ?
if you have just a bit experience with perl (using regular expressions !),
such a script is no rocket-science at all.

werner
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