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From: Ansgar Wiechers on 20 Feb 2010 13:43
On 2010-02-19 David Koski wrote:
> On Monday 15 February 2010, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
>> On 2010-02-14 David Koski wrote:
>>> How about something more simple: test for From: is the same as To:
>>> and is from MAILER-DAEMON:
>>>
>>> grep "^From:.*<david(a)kosmosisland.com>" "$test" \
>>> && grep "Return-Path:.*<MAILER-DAEMON>" "$test" \
>>> && grep "^To:.*<david(a)kosmosisland.com>" "$test"
>>>
>>> ..where "$test" is the email file to scan.
>>
>> You (your users) might lose valid bounces that way.
>
> I would only loose bounces that were from and to me, right? That is
> no big deal.

I prefer to know when mail I sent did not reach a recipient, even if the
person running the destination MTA is an idiot. YMMV.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning."
--Joel Spolsky

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