[Mailman-Users] Re: Bouncing Mail - How is it treated?

[Will Yardley]

JC Dill wrote:
> On 07:57 PM 9/17/02, Will Yardley wrote:

>> The list admin will receive the bounce message(s)...

>> The current stable version of Mailman doesn't support any sort of
>> automatic bounce handling; I'm not sure if future versions will.

> I'm managing a list running under 2.0.13 which has automatic bounce 
> handling (found at the administrative website at 
> domain-name/mailman/admin/listname/bounces) with the following settings:

G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

> Au contraire! Every version of Mailman I've used (back to 2.0.4, now on 2.0.12+)
> has handled bounced message with aplomb. Check out:
> 
>      http://<your.server.here>/mailman/admin/<listname>/bounce

J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:57:19 -0700 
> Will Yardley <william+mm at hq.newdream.net> wrote:
> 
>> The list admin will receive the bounce message(s)...
 
> False.  The admin will receive copies of bounce messages that Mailman
> was unable to reliably process.

> > The current stable version of Mailman doesn't support any sort of
> > automatic bounce handling; ...
> 
> False.  Mailman v 2.0 has a poorly documented bounce handling system
> that works reasonably (not well, not horribly).  Its largely
> unconfigurable beyond what action to take on bouncers (nomail,
> unsubscribe, etc).  

Ok, ok. I stand 100% corrected.
It's been a while since I've delved into the "bounce" menu, and since I
do receive bounce messages occasionally (apparently the ones Mailman
can't process) I figured that Mailman didn't currently do this.

Sorry for spreading inaccurate information...

-- 
Will Yardley
input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >