[Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>] Re: Bounce removal parameters default values

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:19:25 -0400 
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> Upgrade to Mailman 2.1.5, which sends out probe messages after the
> bounce threshold is reached.  Members will only get disabled if the
> probe message bounces, it should be computationally infeasible to
> forge a probe bounce, and bogus probes bounces are simply ignored.
> When a probe is sent, the member's bounce score is reset to zero,
> since it's impossible to tell whether the probe actually reached its
> destination -- all you know is that it hasn't bounced... yet.

Does 2.1.5 formally require plus addressing support in the MTA?  I
thought that was still optional if you didn't use any of the VERPish
supports.  Without plus addressing properly catching the bounce as
unique is the same tarbaby.

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