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.
-- Thanks in advance, René Pijlman R.Pijlman@applinet.nl
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:50:22PM +0200, Rene Pijlman wrote:
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?
Unfortunately, no. Smartlist's virtue is that it sends the message to multiple addresses in the same transaction (or small number of transactions).
There is probably scope for an add-on to send a probe message to addresses one at a time, every month or so, with a tailored subject line and/or bounce address; but there's currently no way of doing what you're asking.
(And even if you could, some MTAs don't include the headers of the mail that caused the bounce...)
Roger
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:50:22PM +0200, Rene Pijlman wrote:
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?
No. You could achieve the desired effect with a MTA capable of VERP (postfix or qmail) which includes the Envelope-Recipient into the Envelope-Sender-Address. I don't know how to alter SL to handle such bounce addresses.
Werner
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