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How to handle refused mail?


I've been asked to set up a newsletter service for ~10k recipients (all signed up, no spam) The thing is I got a lot of rejected emails (non existing addresses),which flooded my inbox. I wrote a shell script to parse these mails, extract the addresses, and remove them from my database. Is there a better option? I have access to everything (mail list, mail server, newsletter service source). If I'm not being clear enough please tell me so I can clarify


Solution

  • Basically you seem to be doing everything right. BATV is one option for etending your bounce handling, another is having the return address be a mailbox created specially for collecting the bounces.