[Mailman-Users] mailman configuration issues?

Geoff Shang geoff at QuiteLikely.com
Fri Oct 15 23:53:48 CEST 2010


On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, cmallon wrote:

> This may seem like a dumb question but I've been seeing a lot of this in 
> my mail.logs All the messages are being delivered and there are no bad 
> recipients in the list.  Could there be a misconfiguration somewhere? 
> I'd like to write a script that extracts information from the keyword 
> bounces, but don't want to get data from legitimate emails.

> Oct 15 10:53:20 apps25 postfix/qmgr[16897]: 1984F691A316: 
> from=<my-list-bounces at mail.mydomain.com>, size=3824, nrcpt=6 (queue 
> active)

This is normal.  List messages are sent out as <listname>-bounces so that 
if one does indeed bounce, it gets sent back to an address that can do 
something about it.

Geoff.



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