Mail List Bad addresses

[k9deb]

I have a mailing list I moderate with about 125 addresses for about a year now. It's a closed list, only I can add or make changes to it. I would suspect that by now some of the people have changed their email addresses without notifying me. So when a message goes out I would suspect to get a bounced email notice or two. But I have yet to see one.

I even added a couple of addresses I know are not ligit. Still I don't see notice that the address is bad.

Where do the bounced emails end up? How can I find out if there is a bad one in the list?

 

[R1Lover]

Setup an alias for root@domain and/or postmaster@domain and test it

 

[nobaloney]

k9deb:

First of all, I'm presuming your writing about the Mailing List functionality of DirectAdmin. This is, after all, the officail DirectAdmin forum .

DirectAdmin's Mailing List functionality is provided by a very standard MajorDomo setup under the hood, with a lot of flexibility (but not all possible settings) managed through the DirectAdmin interface.

Failure messages are automatically sent to owner-LISTNAME unless you change it. owner-LISTNAME is automatically aliased to the siteadmin, so if your site login is k9deb, then the returns will be sent to your k9deb email address. So R1Lover is close; simply read your k9deb email, or forward it to something you do read.

Or, if it's your server and you have root access, you can make the change directly in the /etc/virtual/EXAMPLE.NET/majordomo/list.aliases file (through the shell, as root). Just change the owner-LISTNAME address to anything else you'd prefer to use. It will still show up as owner-LISTNAME in you ougtoing email, but will end up forwarded to wherever you want it.

And when you receive the bounces, you can easily automate the removals from your list if you'd like, since they should contain a header:

X-Failed-Recipients:

which will be followed by failed recipients you can parse and remove automatically using a script you'd write yourself.

Jeff

 

[R1Lover]

Thanks for the info Jeff, as you know i'm learning DA..... and most of it from reading your post and info.