[Mailman-Users] non-delivery notfications

[Mark Sapiro]

Eric Schvartz wrote:
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>Access to Mailman is provided me by my hosting service, so I do not have control over global configuration parameters, just the configuration of individual lists.
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>Here is my question:
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>As a list administrator, I would like to receive non-delivery notifications like the ones below that I saw in an earlier message to this list.  I have tried to figure out how to do this, but without success so far.


Mailman can be set to automatically process 'bounces' (non-delivery
notices or DSNs) for outgoing mail. Read the description on the admin
Bounce processing page.

If bounce_processing is set to No, bounces will be discarded and you
won't see them and nothing will be done about them.

If you set bounce_processing to Yes and also set at least
bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner and
bounce_notify_owner_on_disable under Notifications to Yes, then you
will receive a copy of every message to the listname-bounces address
(where bounces normally go) that is not recognized by Mailman. This
includes spam to the listname-bounces address and legitimates but
non-standard bounces that Mailman is unable to parse.

You will also receive a notice when a member's delivery is disabled by
bounce processing, and this notice will contain a copy of the bounce
message that triggered the disable.

You will not receive bounces that are recognized and only increment the
user's bounce score but do not reach the threshold for disabling
delivery. In your situation, there's no way to see those. If you want
to see every bounce, you have to set bounce_score_threshold <= 1.0 so
the member's delivery is disabled on the first bounce. Then you will
receive the 'disabled' notice with the triggering bounce, and you can
manually re-enable delivery via the Membership
Management...->Membership List page if you want.

We suggest that you don't do this, but rather set appropriate values
for the parameters (our defaults [5.0, 7, 3, 7] are good for lists
that receive daily or almost daily posts), and let Mailman handle the
bounces.

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