[Mailman-Developers] MM feature request - spread out the pain

[Adam McGreggor]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:59:05AM -0500, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Perhaps this is on the feature request list already, or better yet, Barry
> borrowed Guido's time machine when I wasn't looking, however...
> 
> I help administer a number of python.org mailing lists.  MM sends out
> subscription reminders on the first of each month.  This inevitably leads to
> a huge number of mail bounces many of which MM doesn't understand.  The
> python.org postmaster folk then get to go in and manually remove a ton of
> email addresses.  (Looks like about 100 this month.  I'm sure other sites
> have to handle many more such bounces.)  I don't know how to automate this.
> The best thing I can think of to do is to write an Emacs macro which copies
> a highlighted email address, pops over to a shell mode window ssh'd into
> mail.python.org and runs remove_members with the given address.  That's
> still more manual than I would like, but given the variability in bounce
> formats that seems about as good as I can do without expending a lot of
> effort.

shove all the postmaster@ mails into one mailbox, and...

awk/grep the email addresses and list name as a (c|t)sv'd line; select a list, and
feed the email addresses to remove_members ?

(maybe doing a check on the body content, too)

cron that to happen at $interval, on Mailman-day +n, perhaps?

I don't really have this problem, but very few of my lists (I think it
may be ~300 now) send reminders.

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