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Bounce-Management

This function attempts to recognize mails which the mail server sends back to you when your mails cannot be delivered.

The recent standard from RFC 1894 is only rarely fulfilled thereby; it has to do in most cases with text messages with certain key terms. This function cannot be expected to work 100% successfully for that reason.

Select "Bounce detection"" and enter "Add sender to Exclude database" as the Action.

If you find that a large number of mails are not being correctly recognized, you can add more key terms to the file "bounce.cfg".

Search string

In most cases, a simple search string is sufficient. The search for this string can be carried out in one of the following:

in the sender address
in the subject line
in the entire message text.

The condition is fulfilled when the search string appears at least once. No distinction is made between upper and lower case letters.

If you leave the field for the Search string empty, then the Condition is always fulfilled.

Regular Expressions

You can generate complex character sequence comparisons with the help of what are referred to as Regular Expressions. This involves a powerful and standardized syntax for Pattern-Matching which cannot be described here in complete detail.

The expression

^[A-Z0-9._-]+\@[A-Z0-9._-]+\.[A-Z]{1,3}$

determines whether an e-mail address is valid or not, for example.

Testing Regular Expressions

Because the generation of Regular Expressions is always somewhat tricky, the program offers a test function to make this task easier. Once you have entered a Regular Expression, enter a comparison term in the field "Test" and click on "Test RegExpr.".

The program uses the RegExpr. library from Windows-Scripting. Older versions contain a few discrepancies. You can bring this function up to the current state of technology by updating to MS-Windows-Scripting 5.x (free of charge on the Microsoft Homepage).

Countless contributions with additional information are to be found in the Internet concerning the subject of Regular Expressions.