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

[Somuchfun]

The issue is not whether it was obvious or not, the issue is that this new
feature cannot even be turned off, just changed to a different format.
Since there are many configurations out there that might not work with VERP
I find introducing a feature that is on by default and that cannot be turned
off causing more harm than doing good.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles at skynet.be] 
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:30 AM
> To: Somuchfun
> Cc: mailman-developers at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark 
> <gsstark at mit.edu>] Re: Bounceremoval parameters default values
> 
> At 1:14 AM -0700 2004-06-25, Somuchfun wrote:
> 
> >  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!
> 
> 	They did.  Close to the top of the file 
> mailman-2.1.5/NEWS is the 
> following section:
> 
>      - The bounce processor has been redesigned so that now 
> when an address's
>        bounce score reaches the threshold, that address will 
> be sent a probe
>        message.  Only if the probe bounces will the address 
> be disabled.  The
>        score is reset to zero when the probe is sent.  Also, 
> bounce events are
>        now kept in an event file instead of in memory.  This 
> should help
>        contain the bloat of the BounceRunner.
> 
>        New supporting variables in Defaults.py: VERP_PROBE_FORMAT,
>        VERP_PROBE_REGEXP
> 
>        REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY is promoted to a Defaults.py variable.
> 
> 
> 
> 	If your MTA doesn't support VERP, then this should have been 
> pretty obvious to you.
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
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