fml 3.0 -- handling error mail ---


*** overview

In small mailing list, you may be able to handle error mails. 
However you expect fml to handle error mails automatically.


*** handle error mails

Especially in the end of the year, users apart from university or
company but forget to change the address registered in ML. In that
case, many "user unknown" mail returns to $MAINTAINER.

libexec/mead.pl in fml package analyses these error mails as input and
removes such invalid users from the member list.

In default mead.pl shows "user unknown" addresses to remove from the
member list. You can configure mead.pl removes such addresses
automatically.


*** how to configure

% makefml newml elena

[ /var/spool/ml/elena/include-mead ] has

# MEAD: Mail Error Analyze Daemon ("-m auto" to remove addrs automatically)
# a lot of available options. see op.{jp,en} e.g. mead.pl -f perl-script
"|/usr/local/fml/libexec/mead.pl -m report -S /var/spool/ml -D /var/spool/ml/elena -E /usr/local/fml"

[ /var/spool/ml/elena/aliases has the (commented) entry to call ]

#elena-admin: fukachan, :include:/var/spool/ml/elena/include-mead

To enable "mead" to work, uncommnet it in /etc/aliases to enable mead

elena-admin: fukachan, :include:/var/spool/ml/elena/include-mead

and run "newaliases".


*** advanced configuration

 * important command line option

    -m mode
    -k action

These two options are orthogonal. "mode" is either of "auto" or
"report" and "action" is "off" (stop delivery but not remove it) or
"bye" (remove the user).

 * Example: remove invalid user automatically

change "-m report" to "-m auto" in /var/spool/ml/elena/include-mead.
/etc/aliases is the same as described above. 

"|/usr/local/fml/libexec/mead.pl -m auto -S /var/spool/ml -D /var/spool/ml/elena -E /usr/local/fml"

 * Example: stop delivery for invalid user automatically

"|/usr/local/fml/libexec/mead.pl -k off -m auto -S /var/spool/ml -D /var/spool/ml/elena -E /usr/local/fml"


*** For more details

../errormails/ 


           Copyright (C) 1999 Ken'ichi Fukamachi
                   All rights reserved. 

$Id: errormail-handling.en.wix,v 1.1.1.1 2000/12/06 03:50:30 fukachan Exp $