How about phplist? Does a good job for me -tim
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 1:17 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > Maybe they could afford something like Mailchimp? > > > > > > *From:* Blueonyx <blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it> *On Behalf Of *Chuck > Tetlow > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 13, 2018 12:14 PM > *To:* BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it> > *Subject:* [BlueOnyx:22485] Re: Backscatter problem > > > > Hi Chris, > > You and Ken both have very good points. And they are the exact points > I've made to the CEO of the hosting company I support. I've complained > about this customer many times, as they've repeatedly gotten the hosting > company's servers Blacklisted. Then I'd be responsible to move them to a > new server, or change the server's IP - so mail would start flowing again > for other sites on the server. > > But the CEO won't do anything, as they are a ministry and he's already > lost a lot of paying customers. But then of course, when a server gets > blacklisted or backscatter problems start affecting other sites - BlueOnyx > and I get the blame. And he won't listen when I say "I told you this would > happen"! > > I've also suggested Constant Contact or another bulk e-mailer. But the > ministry doesn't want to pay $$, so I'm guessing my CEO is probably > providing service free for a 501C3, or at least a discounted rate. > > As for the idea of them using a different "Reply To" address - I'll > suggest that. But from what I've observed - the ministry people are fairly > computer illiterate, and it would have to be office techs going out there > to set that up. So it may not happen. > > So while I know I'd be treating symptoms, and not fixing the root of the > problem - I'm just hoping to do the easiest/quickest patch that *I* can > do to stop or at least slow the backscatter. That's why I'd hoped to > configure Sendmail to stop sending bounces to the bounces it receives. > These errors just keep going back and forth, building up and building up. > > > > Chuck > > > *---------- Original Message -----------* > From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfa...@virtbiz.com> > To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > Sent: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:47:00 -0600 > Subject: [BlueOnyx:22484] Re: Backscatter problem > > > Hi Chuck, > > > > On 11/13/2018 11:22 AM, Chuck Tetlow wrote: > > > I can and have been dumping them into a separate folder, to get them > out > > > of the queue - but I'd like to prevent them going there in the first > > > [UTF-8?]place.� So I was wondering if anyone knew how to set > Sendmail so it > > > would NOT generate a bounce message when it can't deliver a incoming > > > message. > > > > Ooof! That would be a massive misconfiguration. Also, you'd be > > treating the symptom, not the problem. > > > > As an alternative, why not simply set the reply-to address on the mass > > e-mail to a specific return address. That way, bounces would go into > > that box and someone could go through and prune out addresses from their > > list so they won't even get attempted the next time. Simply set that > > as a POP account and fetch all the messages out without leaving a copy > > on the server. > > > > That way your server will receive the NDRs which could be used by the > > sender and it won't be replying to the NDRs that a box is full. > > > > Also, you may want to have that organization consider an alternative > > such as using Mailman or even a 3rd party mailing list rather than > > copy/pasting a giant list of addresses in the "To" field of an email. > > It is, after all, 2018. > > > > -- > > Chris Gebhardt > > VIRTBIZ Internet Services > > Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated > > www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ > > _______________________________________________ > > Blueonyx mailing list > > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx > *------- End of Original Message -------* > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx >
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