>We're long time users of the iMail list server and recently upgraded to >Version 7.0. > >We have several opt-in lists that contain ~7,000 addresses. When we send >messages to them, we typically get several hundred returns citing unknown >host or unknown address. > >Is there a way to automatically detect these E-mail addresses and then >programmatically delete them from the lists?
Imail's list server doesn't do bounce management with automatic bounce processing. You'll need some kind of add-on, or use a better list server. I recommend Ecartis or MailMail or EZMLM, all free. For example, with Ecartis, one has two kinds of bounces, 5xx fatal and 4xx non-fatal. After x non-fatals or y fatals, the email address can be unsubbed, put on vacation, etc. With an opt-in joke list server I set up and admin where y = 5 and x = 10 (per-list, not per-server), Ecartis bounce-management keeps the bounces to under 0.5%, or 35 bounces/day in your case of 7000. You can set x an y thresholds to keep the bounces lower. Len Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
