On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Kapoor, Nishikant X wrote:

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At times, subscribers in my mailing list have their quota full (or their mail server is down, etc. etc.) and as a result, postings to their addresses bounce. All these bounced emails are then coming back to me since I am the moderator of the list. I am managing three moderated lists, each having 1000+ subscribers and so, these bounced emails are turning out to be quite overwhelming.

Is there a way to redirect these bounced emails to /dev/null instead of moderator ?

Install procmail o so that it is used when emails get's delivered to you and put into your $HOME/.procmailrc :0: * ^FROM_MAILER $HOME/mail/daemon.mbox :0: * ^MAIL_DEAMON $HOME/mail/daemon.mbox That will catch all of the bounced messages. But only those related to the lists. So add a line or two to the conditions to check they originated only from a list (note, you will have to check BODY of the mail for listnames). -- Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, <m.mokrejs@gsf.de> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585