On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:41, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:37:20 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > > > I work for an email marketing company that deal directly with physicians > > and consumers (no NOT spam) but what I'm looking for is a tool that will > > handle the bounces, pull the email address that bounced and dump it into a > > text file for dumping into a database so that we don't keep sending to > > dead accounts. I'd prefer a windows version as we are an all Windows > > shop, but a linux version would get it in the door here which I'm dying to > > do. Any help would be appreciated. > > procmail plus formail and a helper script written in your favourite > scripting language should do. Shouldn't be a hard job to analyze > MAILER-DAEMON return messages on whether they are about fatal delivery > errors. I have a little experience with regards to bounced email, working out if it is a transient error message (over quota, on holiday), or whether it is a permanent failure (over quota, left the company, user/domain does not exist). Unfortunately the number of different mail servers AND configurations of said mail servers is quite astounding. To be honest the best two servers to deal with are Sendmail and Exchange. The error messages provided by these two mail servers are relatively consistent (may be because sendmail admins appreciate consistency, and exchange admins don't know any better ;)). So the biggest problem your going to have is to work out whether or not the response is a fatal error, or one of the other ones. If you are happy with doing that, then some thing as simple as a shell script could be run on a specific mail box, or listed as the mail alias, so that it is processed as it came in to the mail system. Dougie
