mlmmj-bounce(1)

🌸 mlmmj-bounce 🌸

okay bestie, so you know mlmmj-bounce? it's the bounce handling utility for mlmmj and it lives in the General Commands Manual section 1, iykyk 💅 she's the one who deals with all the emails that come back sad and rejected, and honestly? she ate.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mlmmj-bounce --L /path/to/list [-a john=doe.org | -d] [-n num | -p]

that's the whole vibe. <lavender>-L is mandatory, and then you pick your little combo of flags. no cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

here's the flag menu, girlies 🎀:

• -a — the address string that bounces
• -d — parse the mail to extract the address via the DSN (RFC1891)
• -h — print help
• -L path — full path to list directory
• -n — message number in the archive that bounced
• -p — send out a probe
• -V — print version

so like, mlmmj-bounce is literally the girl who handles mails that are bouncing 📬😭 when a mail arrives to the system, mlmmj-bounce will register in <listdir>/bounce/<addrstring> info about which number that bounced at what time. receipts, basically. ✨

an example of such a line could be:

109:1094409801 # Sun Sep  5 20:43:21 2004

and the way that reads? message number 109 bounced 1094409801 seconds after epoch, which in human date stamps is Sunday September 5th 20:43:21 2004. like, the math is mathing and the timeline is timelining 🕰️💖

the last bounce mail received to the address is saved in <listdir>/bounce/<addrstring>.lastmsg. iconic, she keeps the receipts AND the last message. 👑

when the -p option is used it sends out a probe email including info that it's a bounce probe and a list of the bounced message numbers 🔍✨ and here's the lil detail you need to know: the existence of a <listdir>/bounce/<addrstring>.probe file indicates that a probe have been sent out. so if you see that file, girl, the probe already left the group chat, no need to double-text 🙈

💜 AUTHORS 💜

this manual page was written by the following persons, and we stan them fr fr:

• Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> (based on html2man output)
• Mads Martin Jørgensen <mmj@mmj.dk>

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 shoutout to the Debian crew for this one, mlmmj-bounce(1), dated September 1, 2004 — old money, still slaying. periodt. 💅🌸