Sendmail Bounce Handler Works! (post 523)
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Trying to write a mail bounce handling thing for popex, but getting an annoying error saying not available to sendmail... thought it might be about the script / directory being symlinked from somewhere else, but it's not, sendmail insists on any scripts that it runs being put in the /etc/smrsh directory... so, all told the solution was:
- Put
intobounce: "| /etc/smrsh/mailHandler.pl"/etc/aliases - Run
newaliases - er, that's it really
Haven't made mailHandler.pl do anything smart yet, have to get it to recognise when it gets a bounce, see how many mails that user has bounced, etc... a whole lot of info to stuff into the database. Also the mail queue is so full that it's hard to test this right now.
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I'm pleased to report that this works nicely, got thousands of messages today saying "would have deleted this account", so time to really put it into action, disabling accounts, setting them not to receive mail etc...
Had a few drinks and some champion pool triumphs in The Defoe yesterday, then on to dinner in Anglo Asian... it was really busy, big wait for a table, and the food wasn't the same for some reason, maybe a new chef? Anyway, different taste, and smaller portions, strange one... still got my free sherry and the ladies got roses too, so it's still right up there for places to eat in Stokey...
