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The killer feature of Kontact
by Paulo Eduarod Neves on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @18:12

Last month, I made a big party to celebrate my birthday, and emailed a lot of friends inviting them. A lot of messages bounced. Invalid old addresses!

Some of them bounced because I had three or four different entries in my kaddressbook for each of them. It's very easy to add a new address, but to delete an old one I have to: 1) open kaddressbook 2) search for the name 3) delete the ivalid email. Result: I _never_ delete invalid entries from my contact list.

I'd like an integrated mail/address book software to autmatically delete the invalid entries from my contact list.

How to implement it? Simple: use VERP. The idea is that each message sent out will have a unique envelope sender, and you codify the destination address in it (e.g., if user@example.com send a msg to paulo@destiny.com, the envelope sender would be user+paulo=destiny.com@example.com). If the message bounce to user, it's easy to parse the failed address.

Failed addresses would be marked as bounced, and not be used for automatically completions, maybe moved to a different category, and deleted after some bounces.

Sure it all depends if the SMTP server of the sender allows these kind of messages. To check it I'd send a verp message to myself.

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Re: The killer feature of Kontact
by Ingo Klöcker on Friday 27/Jun/2003, @01:06

That sounds pretty much like a killer feature for spammers who want to get rid of invalid email addresses. Anyway, the dot is the wrong place for feature wishes. Use http://bugs.kde.org instead.

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Re: The killer feature of Kontact
by Glenn Alexander on Friday 27/Jun/2003, @17:24

If spammers used this feature to clean up their address lists, wouldn't that make using KDE's 'bounce' feature become a good way to delist yourself? The spammer wouldn't know the difference between a real bounce and an anger-bounce.

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