[Mailman-Users] Bounce scores

[Lindsay Haisley]

Well, I found 
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg09827.html which 
rather explains this, and identifies it as a mailman bug.

Does anyone know if this has been addressed, or will be addressed in new 
versions of mailman?

Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:11:15PM CDT
> I just received a message via one of my list admins from a subscriber who was 
> unsubscribed from a list based on a bounce from last year.  The subscriber got 
> a message with the following:
> 
> > Your membership in the mailing list ..... has been disabled
> > due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> > 12-Mar-2005.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> > you re-enable your membership.
> 
> Indeed, if I use dbdump to look at the config.pck for the list I see _many_ 
> entries such as the following:
> 
> 		       '[address_redacted]': <bounce info for member 
> [address_redacted]
> 	current score: 2.0
> 	last bounce date: (2005, 2, 17)
> 	email notices left: 3
> 	last notice date: (1970, 1, 1)
> 	confirmation cookie: None
> 
> 
> I notice two things about these.  First, the last bounce date is _way_ in the 
> past, even though bounce_info_stale_after is set to 12 days.  The second is 
> that the last notice date is bogus.  Mailman _is_ resetting bounce information 
> since I get many notices such as the following in my mailman logs:
> 
> Sep 18 12:05:24 2006 (17300) listname: [address_redacted] has stale bounce info, resetting
> Sep 18 13:15:55 2006 (17300) listname: [address_redacted] has stale bounce info, resetting
> Sep 18 13:32:43 2006 (17300) listname: [address_redacted] has stale bounce info, resetting
> 
> ... so it looks as if bounce counts _are_ getting reset.
> 
> This list has been ongoing for a long time, and the entire list was moved to a 
> new server early this year and has been functioning normally otherwise.  I 
> suspect that these database entries may have gotten crosswise of a mailman 
> version upgrade, of which there have been several since the list was moved to 
> mailman.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can straighten this out and get the mechanics of 
> bounce processing working properly?
> 
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Lindsay Haisley       | "Fighting against human |     PGP public key
FMP Computer Services |    creativity is like   |      available at
512-259-1190          |    trying to eradicate  | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com>
http://www.fmp.com    |        dandelions"      |
                      |      (Pamela Jones)     |