[Mailman-Developers] suggested improvement for Mailman's bounce processing

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 8 August 2006 05:00:17 -0500 Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> 
wrote:

> At 10:46 AM +0100 2006-08-08, Ian Eiloart quoted "Bob Puff at NLE"
> <bob at nleaudio.com>:
>
>>>  If people bounce a message every day for a couple weeks, I consider
>>>  their ISP broken enough to warrant unsubscription.
>>
>>  In my case, it wasn't my ISP, or my server that was at fault. It was the
>>  message *senders* mail client that was constructing faulty headers.
>
> Right, but that's Yahoo.  That's not Mailman.  Mailman is unlikely to be
> doing this sort of thing.  If anything, it would most likely be scrubbing
> the messages in order to remove illegal formatting.

Really, Mailman is fixing up message header syntax?

> I can understand the overall desire in this specific case, but I'm having
> a hard time painting Mailman with that same brush, which would then
> reasonably lead to a requirement to make significant changes to the
> Mailman bounce handling scheme in order to try and guess as to what was
> the real reason behind a particular type of bounce.
>
>
> I'm not saying that this isn't something that we shouldn't at least look
> at seriously, I'm just saying I don't quite buy this particular
> motivation, at least not as it applies to Mailman.



-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex