[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Options

Bob Puff@@NLE bob@nleaudio.com
Sat, 01 Dec 2001 20:32:17 -0500


> My simplification assumes that temporary failures really /are/
> temporary!  I think my approach is robust in the face of probably the
> most common temporary failure I see as a list admin: a user running
> out of disk space for a period of several days or a week.  Once they
> get a clue and free up some room, and deliveries start to succeed, I
> want them to get off probation.  Ideally automatically, but as a
> failsafe, by the probation notices.

I agree.  Mailman has a hard enough time now detecting the bounces; trying to parse out permanent vs non-permanent is IMHO wasted code.  I think just setting the bounce numbers higher will let this automagically happen.  

Bob