Re: Listproc with Z-mailer

[Andy Poling <andy@realbig.com>]

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone out there has any patches to share for running
> > Listproc 6.0c under Z-mailer 2.99.x.  We are running these together right
> > now and, mostly, this combination works well.  However, we are beginning
> > to notice the "auto-unsubscribe" (i.e. automatically remove a user from
> > the list after 7 days of bounced mails) feature does not work and I
> > believe it is because Z-mailer writes out different headers than Sendmail.
> > I've got a partial patch working so that Listproc will recognise the
> > bounce, but there must be some other change I need to make.  Any
> > volunteers before I go at it further?
> 
> 	The format that the new ZMailer's use is known as:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Network Working Group                                       G. Vaudreuil
> Request for Comments: 1892                        Octel Network Services
> Category: Standards Track                                   January 1996
> 
>                    The Multipart/Report Content Type
>                           for the Reporting of
>                   Mail System Administrative Messages
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 	along with another document:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Network Working Group                                           K. Moore
> Request for Comments: 1894                       University of Tennessee
> Category: Standards Track                                   G. Vaudreuil
>                                                   Octel Network Services
>                                                             January 1996
> 
>      An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 	(Actually the quad of: 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894)
> 
> 	Those define the format and contents of the reports.
> 	The new sendmail (8.7+) also produce this form of
> 	reports when configured to do so.  Same with lattest
> 	PMDF, I think.

If anyone is interested, I've written a shell script that does a fair job of
parsing out the error types and determining temporary vs. permanent failures
and the associated addresses.

I'd be willing to share if you promise not to stick your finger down your
throat.  :-)

-Andy

'91 Miata: "ZIP"          '96 A4 Quattro: "ZOOM"       '84 Yam RZ350: "ZING"