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[David Mintz]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Jeff Loiselle wrote:

> > My unoriginal thought is to set return-path to something like
> > bounce-handler at example.org and set a procmail (or equivalent) recipe to
> > pipe anything sent to bounce-handler to a php script that parses out who
> > the intended recipient was, deems it a bounce and acts accordingly.  The
> > gotcha here, according to my rigorously scientific thought experiments, is
> > that if someone at elsewhere.org deliberately sent mail to
> > bounce-handler at example.org, the former would be considered a bounce --
> > unless your bounce-handler worked really hard to figure out if and why the
> > incoming message bounced. Ah, the joy of reinventing the wheel.
>
> Either you can start up a database and start learning how to parse
> thousands of type of bounces... or.. you can just set a certain limit
> of the ones that come back to the bounce script, and at that limit,
> decide to finally bounce the user.

I hear you. A bounce threshold is in fact part of my grand plan -- again,
really original.


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