mugundhan : > hi all, > i need to know how to calculate the number of bounced back/returned = > mails when sending mails to a list of email addresses. > i have qmail installed on a linux box. > iam pretty new to qmail. so far, i have been using sendmail wherein = > there was a option in the sendmail program (-X) which will redirect the = > entire conversation which my server had with the smtp servers of the = > recepient boxes to a file. i would then grep the mail ids alone which = > had returned back from that file.=20 > now, iam using qmail-inject and the -X option is not available. > iam very much confused as to how to find the number of bounced back = > mails. iam able to receive all the bounce back mails to my email = > address. but, i need to count them manually to get the number of = > returned mails.=20 > is there any way to automate the process. > i know cgi-perl and all my applications are in perl only. so, a solution = > in terms of perl would very much helpful to me. Not in Perl, but you can munge the ascii output with Perl scripts: http://cr.yp.to/software.html, qmailanalog. That package will crank out all kinds of statistics about delivered and bounced mails broken down per sender/recipent if needed. regards, -- Joerg Lenneis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
