Hi
I am trying to Install a CGI Script - which takes care of bounces from a mailing list. I found it at one of the CGI scripts website.
Before I tell my problem I will give a small background to what I want.
I have a mailing list (not spaming list) of our clients but a lot of the email address are obsolute. I wanted to filter it to have a list of running email addresses and then correct the bad ones later.
This CGi script (supposedly) does just that. According to its documentation (if u call 10 lines a documentation - not helpful to someone trying to work his first CGI script) users just have to create a 2 files called emails.txt and logs.txt with CHMOD 777 permission on server and put this cgi file in the cgi folder. The emails.txt should have 1 email per line and nothing else.
the cgi file itself has place to put the details of the POP account to be checked. It can be configured to remove any emails coming to a particular email address - so all bounces will be removed automatically.
I have done everything right (atleast i think so
) but i cant get this to run. I tried sending a email to a particular address - and ran the cgi script from the browser - if it would have worked it would have removed that email from the emails.txt file - as it is configured to remove any emails coming to that email address.
BUT it keeps on saying "0 added 0 removed 0 deleted from server". and add a entry to the log file saying "could not find email address "xyz@xyz.com". this email address is in the emails.txt file - so i dont know why it cant find it!!
Any suggestions would be very very helpful.
Thanks.
Tanuj
I am trying to Install a CGI Script - which takes care of bounces from a mailing list. I found it at one of the CGI scripts website.
Before I tell my problem I will give a small background to what I want.
I have a mailing list (not spaming list) of our clients but a lot of the email address are obsolute. I wanted to filter it to have a list of running email addresses and then correct the bad ones later.
This CGi script (supposedly) does just that. According to its documentation (if u call 10 lines a documentation - not helpful to someone trying to work his first CGI script) users just have to create a 2 files called emails.txt and logs.txt with CHMOD 777 permission on server and put this cgi file in the cgi folder. The emails.txt should have 1 email per line and nothing else.
the cgi file itself has place to put the details of the POP account to be checked. It can be configured to remove any emails coming to a particular email address - so all bounces will be removed automatically.
I have done everything right (atleast i think so
) but i cant get this to run. I tried sending a email to a particular address - and ran the cgi script from the browser - if it would have worked it would have removed that email from the emails.txt file - as it is configured to remove any emails coming to that email address. BUT it keeps on saying "0 added 0 removed 0 deleted from server". and add a entry to the log file saying "could not find email address "xyz@xyz.com". this email address is in the emails.txt file - so i dont know why it cant find it!!Any suggestions would be very very helpful.
Thanks.
Tanuj