On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> just parse the *maillog* instead
>
> That would only be effective for bounce messages that were generated
> by our mail server (in the case of messages that were immediately
> rejected by the foreign mail server when our mail server attempted to
> hand the messages off). It would not work for messages that were
> initially accepted for delivery but were subsequently returned as
> being non-deliverable.
Are there still servers that accept undeliverable mail and generate
messages later? That behavior makes them an easy target for spammers
who send the real target address as the From: entry and will likely
get them blacklisted.
> It is on my list of "things to do" to extract the maillog entries for
> any application generated emails.
I'd expect the bulk of failures to be there, but your own server
should generate and deliver the bounce along with logging it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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