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

[Somuchfun]

Oh, we did test it for a while but this is the kind of problem that you
do not encounter lightly in a test environment. And on top it would have
helped if the mailman dev team would have published this major change in
bounce processing!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw at kanga.nu] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:13 PM
> To: Somuchfun
> Cc: mailman-developers at python.org; 'Nigel Metheringham'
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark 
> <gsstark at mit.edu>] Re: Bounceremoval parameters default values 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:44:32 -0700 
> somuchfun  <somuchfun at atlantismail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This new VERP probe is ridiculous. One of my customer on a cpanel 
> > system had thousands of unsubscribes because of it. Why? 
> Cpanel does 
> > not support in its current default exim setting VERP and 
> there was no 
> > need for it because it is not on by default in mailman. Now 
> out of the 
> > blue it is used even though VERP is turned off in mm_mfg.py 
> And since 
> > this mailman VERP probe is unforgiving it unsubscribes 
> right away! Not 
> > a good thing at all and the complaints from customers are coming in 
> > big time........
> 
> So you deployed a new software into production without first 
> making there were no negative impacts?  Nice QC there.
> 
> -- 
> J C Lawrence
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