What is a good way to filter out bouncebacks automatically? My client is sending out a newsletter, and they are getting thousands of bouncebacks (mostly their problem.) For the time being, I need to be able to filter those out either through qmail or whatever. It would need to be automatic.

Any ideas?

-Chris

You could use something like qmail-remove and set up a little cron job to run it I suppose. It can do pattern matching from the email bounces. If you do make sure you stop qmail before it runs, and allow enough time for it to truly shut down before qmail-remove runs.

Personally, I would probably just make the client purge their list. If they have that many bad email addresses it probably also indicates that they don't really have the approval to send mail to all of those folks. What you're describing is getting dangerously close to getting your entire server blacklisted for spamming.

Go to mysql promt.
give following commands:

use psa;
update Parameters set value = 'reject' where value = 'bounce';

This will reject all the mails instead of bounce.


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