[Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

[Barry Warsaw]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:56, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	I think JC was talking about the broader subject, more than just 
> the standard DSNs.
> 
> 	I agree with you that we could do a better job of parsing and 
> handling the standard DSNs, but I agree with JC that this is a very 
> tough task to do beyond the standard DSNs.

Mailman /should/ be able to parse RFC 3464 DSNs accurately, at the very
least to tell whether the notification indicates a permanent failure or
not.  If it's not working right, it's a bug.

All the 'magical' bounce detection stuff in the other Mailman/Bouncers
modules is a losing battle, and I don't have much motivation to keep up
with the arms race.  DSN and VERP should be all we need.

-Barry