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List:       majordomo-users
Subject:    Re: ROUND TWO RE: example of running the 'bounce' script
From:       David Barr <barr () visi ! com>
Date:       2000-02-25 0:15:57
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Automated bounce handling is not something you can just whip together
lightly (if it were, it would have been done by now).  Majordomo 1
just isn't written to make this easy.

You'll have much better luck with Majordomo 2.  See the FAQ for
details on where to get it.

--Dave
D B wrote:
> 
> I read the FAQ section you mentioned in the replying email, but it still
> doesn't seem to make sense.
> 
> Here's my understanding, please correct me if I'm wrong:
> 
> If a message is sent out from a mailing list and bounces, it will return to
> the designated "list-owner". If the "list-owner" is someone's actual email
> address, that address would receive all the bounces without any intervention
> from 'bounce' or any other process. My conclusion would be, I need to
> somehow call the 'bounce' script from my "list-owner" mail alias - instead
> of putting my email address as the alias. That way I'm out of the loop. An
> example would be:
> 
> content: "|/scripts/majordomo/resend -l content content-list"
> content-list: :include:/scripts/majordomo/lists/content
> content-owner: email@address.com
> 
> OR
> 
> content-owner: "call the bounce script to remove this email address"
> 
> An I completely off base? I cannot see how the preceding alias entries would
> have anything to do with a bounces list even if the alias file looked like
> the following:
> 
> content: "|/scripts/majordomo/resend -l content content-list"
> content-list: :include:/scripts/majordomo/lists/content
> content-owner: email@address.com
> 
> bounces: "|/scripts/majordomo/resend -l bounces bounces-list"
> bounces-list: :include:/scripts/majordomo/lists/bounces
> bounces-owner: email@address.com
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> -DB
> 
> >D B proclaimed:
> > > I am looking for an example (code fragment) for using the 'bounce'
> >script. I
> > > assume it can be used from a Sendmail alias, but I would like to see an
> > > example usage.
> >
> >http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#3.2
> >
> >The only thing that you need to do in /etc/aliases is add the entries (just
> >like you'd do for any newly created mailing list) for the bounces list.
> >
> >Thaths
> >--
> >     "I have two questions for you: How much? and I'll take it."
> >                      -- Homer J. Simpson
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> 
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