Hello,
I'm using smartlist for a newsletter with about 4.500 subscribers. Every time I send my newsletter I get some mail delivery failures returned, mostly because of terminated accounts. Most failure messages provide a clear error message that includes the incorrect e-mail address.
Unfortunately, some mail servers return an error message with the original e-mail (send by smartlist) attached, but with no mention of the e-mail address that failed. Is there a way to have smartlist/sendmail include the addressee in the headers when it sends the mail?
In that way I would be able to find the incorrect address in the header of the message that is returned to me.
Rene
If you use VERP, and have a unique envelope sender, then decode the address the bounce is returned to, re-format the message and send it to SL, that should solve the problem.
Qmail, an MTA, does VERP as an option, and I have some configuration files for Exim that send VERP style, and decode and re-route bounces to SL. You would need to spend several days at least to incorporate my code.
I think somebody has adapted Qmail with SL although not sure if it's available to borrow or not.
That's my two cents.
mark
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