Comments on: Checking your postfix maillog for bounces and process with ruby http://www.jzlabs.com/2008/01/30/checking-your-postfix-maillog-for-bounces-and-process-with-ruby/ the web experiment playground of jason ting Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bart van Bragt http://www.jzlabs.com/2008/01/30/checking-your-postfix-maillog-for-bounces-and-process-with-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-3560 Bart van Bragt Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:03:02 +0000 http://www.jzlabs.com/?p=51#comment-3560 There are better ways to deal with this. The easiest way is to use an address like 'bounces@example.com' as the envelope sender and then pipe all email to this address through a script that processes the emails. If you use VERPs it's even easier to process the bounces, extracting the correct address from bounces can be a challenge. Check this out for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path or http://serverfault.com/questions/48326/how-to-collect-bounces-in-postfix There are better ways to deal with this. The easiest way is to use an address like ‘bounces@example.com’ as the envelope sender and then pipe all email to this address through a script that processes the emails. If you use VERPs it’s even easier to process the bounces, extracting the correct address from bounces can be a challenge.

Check this out for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path or http://serverfault.com/questions/48326/how-to-collect-bounces-in-postfix

]]> By: Brian Armstrong http://www.jzlabs.com/2008/01/30/checking-your-postfix-maillog-for-bounces-and-process-with-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Brian Armstrong Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:49:40 +0000 http://www.jzlabs.com/?p=51#comment-503 Nice! Thanks for posted this. Surprised there isn't a better way to get bounces from postfix other than scraping the logs, but this helps. Nice! Thanks for posted this. Surprised there isn’t a better way to get bounces from postfix other than scraping the logs, but this helps.

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