[Mailman-Users] no bounce message with bad address

[Loren Engrav]

hi

I “talked” to mailmanlists.net

seems they fixed the problem as I now get bounce messages

thanks

> On Aug 9, 2019, at 1:10 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> Loren Engrav via Mailman-Users writes:
> 
>> sometimes I load an invalid address (invalid name but valid domain)
>> like xyz at whidbey.com; whidbey.com is ok but there is no xyz
>> 
>> with Mailman 2.1.26 at site5.com and 2.1.29 at mailmanlists.net
>> I do not receive a bounce message
> 
> Some sites refuse to send bounces on those because it could be a
> spammer probing for valid addresses.  That's quite unusual as far as I
> know.  It could be one of those sites that sends garbage bounces that
> are not recognized by Mailman, in which case it should be sent to the
> list owner or the site admin list mailman at list.example.com.  Have you
> checked those mailboxes?  Other than that, not sure.
> 
> Steve
>