[Mailman-Users] excessive bounce notifications..

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Mon May 19 05:36:45 CEST 2008


Khalil Abbas wrote:
> OKEYZ .. this is just too much for me.. if I just disabled the options 
> that send the Uncaught Bounce notification would it be ok? I mean if 
> there are REAL bounces that mailman couldn't process, would it be 
> harmful if I just ignored them?


The harm in ignoring legitimate unrecognized bounces is you keep mailing 
to a dead address. At best, this is a waste of bandwidth and other 
resources. At worst, it can get your server blacklisted.

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