[Mailman-Developers] Bouncing administrative mail

[Ken Manheimer]

On Wed, 20 May 1998, John Viega wrote:

> I would say that what needs to be done is that the same sort of loop
> detection needs to be performed on these mails as is done on regular
> list mail w/ the X-BeenThere header.  It could also be done by adding
> an additional administrative address...

If i'm thinking of the right bounce situation (will have to go back and
look at the original problem statement), i think the right answer is to
look at the intended recipients of the bounce, and if any are the same
as the place where the new bounce notice would go - don't send it!

I'll investigate.

In addition, do most prominent logging - like in the "error" log, which
only otherwise gets actual coding error tracebacks.  (The idea being
that this is an extraordinary error condition worth bringing to the
attention of the mailman site administrator.) 

And incidentally, have people been checking their logs/error file
occasionally?  It should mostly be empty, but any tracebacks found there
should be investigated.

Ken