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General Help & How-To / Bounce Not Bouncing
« on: December 01, 2006, 04:07:05 am »
Spent 10 min looking for typing error and could not find any.

Copied "http://www.DOMAIN.com/mail" into my internet explorer and got my Listmail login page.

What next ?

Thank you.

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General Help & How-To / Avoiding Email Blockers
« on: November 20, 2006, 01:44:47 am »
Dean

Sometimes I find that some messages are not getting through. What can be done to get past Email Blockers ?
I would know the full extent of this I could get "bounce" to work, but that is another story.

PS. I got an email form a company promising to send millions of emails. In your experience, what would you say about http://www.emailadvertisinginc.com/

David

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General Help & How-To / Bounce Not Bouncing
« on: November 20, 2006, 01:16:42 am »
Dean

Thanks for keeping up with this.

1) Bounce is 755, but most of the signip-lists are 644.

2) Changed path to pearl version and back. Each time when I sent a message to bounce with the title TESTBOUNCE I got the following errors

Please note that some details have been altered......

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  pipe to |/usr/bin/perl /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
    generated by bounce@MYSITE.com
    local delivery failed

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/usr/bin/perl /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
       generated by bounce@MYSITE.com ------

Bareword found where operator expected at /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi line 12, near "//www"
   (Missing operator before www?)
syntax error at /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi line 12, near "$http:"
Execution of /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

and also this error

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  pipe to |/home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
    generated by bounce@MYSITE.com
    local delivery failed

The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:

------ pipe to |/home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
       generated by bounce@MYSITE.com ------

Bareword found where operator expected at /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi line 12, near "//www"
   (Missing operator before www?)
syntax error at /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi line 12, near "$http:"
Execution of /home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.


3) To date I have never EVER had a message from my admin email address telling me that anythin bounced. So I just checked admin@MYSITE.com and it is working.

Thanks
David

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General Help & How-To / Bounce Not Bouncing
« on: November 18, 2006, 04:38:18 am »
Asked my web host for a redirection script. Got one. No luck.

Tried TESTCOUNCE again and got:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  pipe to |/home/MYUSERNAME/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
    generated by bounce@MYSITE.com
    local delivery failed

Set bounce to the first tick box = return to administrator and have yet to receive a bounce message. Note that I set up an a few bad email addresses to test the bounce and have yet to see one of them register as a fail.

What next ?

David

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General Help & How-To / Bounce Not Bouncing
« on: November 10, 2006, 08:41:13 am »
Here is my configuration (mysite corrected) CHMOD is 755

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# ListMail bounce.cgi
#
# Modify this file to contain your ListMail URL, place it in your cgi-bin directory and CHMOD it to 755.

# Full URL to ListMail, no trailing slash
$listmail_url = "http://www.mysite.com/public_html/mail";

# Program and paramaters to pass URL to
# Usually works as default (may be /usr/local/bin/wget or other)
$http_program = "/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null " . $http://www.mysite.com/public_html/mail . "/bounce.php";

# dont need to change anything below here



When I test mail mail settings on the Configuration page it says "Success" expect an email. But the email never arrives.


Thanks
David

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General Help & How-To / Bounce Not Bouncing
« on: November 09, 2006, 08:21:21 am »
I never really got "Bounce" to work when I first started with Listmail. Probably because it did not matter much in thoes days.

Now I want to send some emails to about 100 people and I have to enter the addresses by hand..... That will be a fun day.

Anyway, boredom will take have an effect and some emails will be entered incorrectly. So now I need bounce to work.

What is the simples method to discover if I have entered a bad email address.

Also, what are the most common faults when making a mess of seting up bounce.cgi

Thanks
David

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General Help & How-To / Referrals
« on: September 21, 2006, 07:14:38 am »
Dean

Continuing the question of how to take advantage of referrals... suggested email addresses.

In the absence of a good solution... how about this.

Create a webpage with a form for referrals.

Form gets delivered to my inbox.

Now I can manually email people and give them a link to the website signup page.

But, I might end up spamming someone.

Then that causes problems.

Any good ideas about how to send low volumes of possible spam... that is if someone is abusing the referral system.

David

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General Help & How-To / Delete Old Backups
« on: September 21, 2006, 07:07:41 am »
Dean

When i try to delete old backup files, they do not delete on the back up and restore page.

How do you get rid of them ?

David

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Development, Suggestions / Referal Autoresponder
« on: September 12, 2006, 03:00:14 am »
Dean

It would be nice to build my list by getting existing subscribers to add the names and email addresses of people who they think would appreciate the newsletters they are sent.

So person A could refer person B.
B would then get an email from me, mentioning that "Dear B, your friend A suggested you read this...... please click to confirm....etc."

But.
This could be abused and the resulting emails could be treated as spam.

There must be someway of doing this without a malicious person causing me to accidentally spam anyone.

David

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 26, 2006, 12:57:21 am »
Dean

That would leave three ways forward:

1. Give up and get a new host...... lots of hassle.

2. A noticed some info on my Cpanel which says "  Path to sendmail       /usr/sbin/sendmail ". Do you think there is anyway of exploiting that ?

3. The helpdesk guy is Chris    http://www.4uhosting.co.uk
Are there any good questions you could ask him that might solve this ?

Thanks
David

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 25, 2006, 03:56:46 am »
Dean

I put your comments to the server helpdesk. Possibly the guy there did not realise:

1.  Listmail does work with PHP mail

2.  You have solved problems that he could not ( eg. cron episode)

Anyway here is the reply I got:
"
The Listmail representitive who emailed you is way behind on his understanding of this. Most decent web hosts now completely restrict access to SMTP via localhost. This is done by only allowing certain wheel group users to access SMTP. Its a tweak that is done to prevent exploits and to stop attacks. Sendmail was created for the purpose of sending emails via scripts on shared hosting servers and it looks to me like this Listmail software was written a long time ago when server security wasnt as important as it is today.

They have suggested to you that you should use the "internal PHP mail()" method of sending. This will be an option with your script and will work fine. You should ask them how to configure it to use that method.

I'm afraid our level of support does not stretch to fixing your scripts for you. We can only give general advice.
"

Is there anywhere else to go with this one?

To date your suggestions have worked very well. So as long as you are alive and well there is hope.

David

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 24, 2006, 07:16:27 am »
Now the hosting company have explained a little further:


Hosting servers provide basically two methods of sending mail.

The first is SMTP and is used to send mail using a remotely connected host like your pc and your email client like outlook express.

Allowing access to smtp directly on the server would be a security risk and could open up the server to spammers. For this reason and others, an smtp connector called "sendmail" was developed especially for hosting servers.

Sendmail is simply a binary on the server that is used to send mail. If you have a script that uses either the PHP mail() function or is otherwise written to make use of the sendmail binary, you will be able to send emails from your script on the server. You usally dont need the path to sendmail but this is /usr/sbin/sendmail

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 24, 2006, 05:00:19 am »
Hosting company have just made the following reply to my question about this to them:

"We dont allow connections to smtp locally. This is what sendmail is for. You need to use a script that supports sendmail."

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 24, 2006, 01:12:56 am »
Now to add to the hassle..... Whatever I have done to the settings.... Has stopped the previously functioning Dailymail.

Have tried Authorisation, which appears to help, because it says "Varified", but still no luck

What next?

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General Help & How-To / STMP Server Settings
« on: August 23, 2006, 08:20:49 am »
Dean

When you say "localhost"

Does that mean writing localhost into the Host box, or something else like example.com

Reconnect setting was 1000
Port 25

thanks

David

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