Not sure if I have worded my question right in the topic of this post, but let me go to the long description:

I have a mailing list with over 80 subscribers, on a list powered by Dada Mail.

Someone has subscribed to an address that is a forwarder to info@example.com, a now-defunct personal website. The domain is available for registration.

A check of the subscriber's attached email in the bounce message reveals that he is subscribed at info@example.com, but when I follow that link back to my email list to unsubscribe, he is not subscribed! This is in agreement with the subscriber list that I have already checked for that address.

I could send each subscriber an individual test message with the subscribed email address contained within the subject or body of the message. Then see which one comes back from example.com. And unsubscribe that address.

Is there another tool that I can use to trace the email addresses I have on file back to their destination without actually sending a message?

Thanks in advance!

And should guess what you are using to manage your list?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

And should guess what you are using to manage your list?

I manage the list using Dada Mail, as I stated in my post. I have access to the subscriber list as the list owner, and can add or remove people directly. The email address that the bounce comes from is not listed.

Otherwise, I have cPanel on the web site hosting my Dada Mail script. The mail is sent from the on-site server.

Hope this helps?

Sorry missed the Dada mail bit.

Basically it is just spam them, I get 2 or 3 a week "Your message was rejected by [whatever server], if you look at the headers (mostly spoofed) you'll probably find the originating IP maps to Russia, Rumania or China.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Sorry missed the Dada mail bit.

Basically it is just spam them, I get 2 or 3 a week "Your message was rejected by [whatever server], if you look at the headers (mostly spoofed) you'll probably find the originating IP maps to Russia, Rumania or China.

Guess I'm just going to have to send emails one-at-a-time to each subscriber until I find the one I get the bounce from.

There is a feature in Dada Mail, come to think of it, that is supposed to help identify bounce issues -- if I recall correctly, it would insert the subscriber address that the message was sent to, in a header. Read the header on the bounced message and there's the answer. However, it did not work under my shared hosting plan and I shut it off some years ago.

Thanks Chris for letting me bounce this off of you and perhaps gain some new insight.