[Mailman-Developers] MTA load, custom messages, bounces

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui@plaidworks.com
Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:01:57 -0800


On 12/7/01 6:40 PM, "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-mailman@lenin.nu> wrote:

> If you
> don't get the message bounced back then that email address isn't really (or
> at least always) bouncing.

Unless, of course, the postmaster implements bounces using a "not here any
more" mailbot, which will strip all of the headers, not return as a bounce,
and probably not be parsable by anything but a human, and maybe not then.

This is called "being helpful", of course.