Fredrik, Sending the emails is not a problem -- I can send all the emails, each with a different "from" address. (I have a working python script.) The challenge is receiving all the responses in one in box. > To be able to collect mail > from all of those and deliver them to your mailbox is out > of the scope for SquirrelMail .... I understand that to be the answer to my question. Thanks, Rick --- On Thu, 3/25/10, Fredrik Jervfors <jervfors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Fredrik Jervfors <jervfors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: can squirrelmail do VERP? > To: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:38 AM > > I have several thousand email > addresses, the vast majority of which are > > definitely no good, and I want to figure out which are > good. > > > > So I will send out an email to all the email > addresses. By making a list > > of the ones that bounced, and comparing that list with > the full list, I > > can determine which are still good. > > > > This is for a non-profit association -- I am not in > the spam business. > > > > Knowing exactly which emails bounced would be much > easier if I could set > > up a squirrelmail in box implementing VERP. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path > > > > In other words, I want an in box accepting all mail > where the email > > addresses match a wildcard pattern like this: > > mail_admin_??????@domain.org, where ?????? are 6 > digits. The digits > > would be a scrambled contact ID. Since they will > be digits only, here is > > the regular expression: mail_admin_\d{6}. (We > will pick a wildcard > > pattern that does not conflict with any existing > address.) > > > > We are running squirrelmail 1.4.8-5 and IMAP server > Dovecot 1.0.7. > > > > How do I set this up? > > A mail system consists of many parts. SquirrelMail does two > things: allows > you to read what's been delivered by other system parts to > your mailbox, > and allows you to instruct other system parts to send out > mail that you > have composed. > > VERP makes use of different sender addresses. To be able to > collect mail > from all of those and deliver them to your mailbox is out > of the scope for > SquirrelMail - check your SMTP server and local delivery > solution. > SquirrelMail can use variable sender addresses, but only if > you manually > configure them and choose one of them when sending mail. > This isn't very > suitable for VERP. > > If I were to tackle the problem I'd configure my SMTP > server to use a > catch-all address (that's the easy approach, although I > generally don't > like catch-all addresses) or define each and every VERP > from address in > the mail system (the harder but a bit better approach, > which could be done > with a script). In both cases I'd have them deliver to a > special mail box. > Then I'd write a script to mail out a test message to all > recipients, but > with different from addresses for each and every one for > them (as > described in VERP). > > Sincerely, > Fredrik > > -- > Fredrik Jervfors > The SquirrelMail Project > Please support Open Source Software by donating to > SquirrelMail! > http://squirrelmail.org/donations.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, > find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel > performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
