>I'm just trying to find some criteria to narrow it down to 
bounced message
>from people who were sent mail through a list, extract the 
address, and
>remove it from the list.

Sounds like a job for Perl (Practical Extraction and Report 
Language). It's freely available from http://www.activestate.com

I'd try to figure out how to redirect bounce messages to an alias, 
that way your script doesn't have to deal with parsing a mailbox 
or speaking POP3, it just gets one message at a time. 

For example, create an application alias via the Win32 GUI 
named "cleanup" and point it at your Perl script. Then add the 
alias to the list itself.

For extra points, add a function that will detect vacation message 
loops and unsubscribe the offender.

Hint: the name of the file in your spool dir is passed as the only 
argument to your perl script by Imail.

Mike

(wishing I had the ability to set "From:" in the webmail header. 
This would be useful for lots of reasons, not the least of which 
is fixing my subscriber address here).



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