[Mailman-Users] Limited posting

[Jim Kutter]

Ok. Interesting. I think I will look into procmail to filter out garbage since I want unsibscribe requests and the like to go to a tech support mail account.

That brings me to another question - what's an accurate method of counting the number of bounces? I was grepping the bounce log and counting the number of bounces for my newsletter. That will only work however if I wipe the bounce log every few days - and even then I won't get a very accurate count... Also - as far as stats go, in the smtp log, is that a fair count for how many messages really got sent? I don't care so much about how many people actually read the messages, but my sales team wants a fairly accurate count of how many people are really getting the newsletter...

Thanks
-jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amanda" <arandall at auntminnie.com>
To: "Jim Kutter" <webmaster at ebizq.net>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Limited posting


> This sounds familiar! Only we get ~1800 per edition of newsletter... doctors really love their "Your message has been received" and "I'm out of the office today" vacation settings. :-)
> 
> Quick and dirty answer - you could set your Reply-To to some other location. That will of course direct not only the vacation messaging, receipt-acknowledgements, and other bargle to that reply-to, but also all the unsubscribes, tech-question mail, and whatnot. You *can * route it to the bitbucket if you like (e.g. an alias that points to /dev/null) or you can route it to a box you can
> sift through (manually or otherwise) at your convenience.
> 
> Bounce and rejection notices should still come back to the apparent sender of the message (in your case, listowner), which can be handy if you want to count bounces (which we do).
> 
> =)
> Amanda
> 
> 
> Jim Kutter wrote:
> 
> > Hello again folks. You've all been tremendous help for me recently, but I have a another question.
> >
> > I am using mailman to manage a newsletter list (with some other lists - but that's the primary use), and obviously I don't want to allow public postings to a newsletter. So I set the e-mail address of the person who composes the newsletter as the only one allowed to post to the list. So, in order to protect my users from their users :) I set the list to hide the sender of the message.
> >
> > So here's the problem - the newsletters go out saying they're from newsletter-owner, and the admin of the list (me) gets all the "Out of office", "remove me pls!", "undeliverable" et al. This amounts to ~400 e-mails whenever the letter goes out...
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -jim
> >
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