Feature Requests item #748549, was opened at 2003-06-04 00:02 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=748549&...

Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: karl berry (kberry) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: recognize bounces from old users

Initial Comment: It would be nice if mailman kept track of ex-users on a mailing list. Then when a bounce comes in for such a person, it could be discarded instead of being `unrecognized'.

That is, when an address goes bad, there's typically a delay (of five days, for example) before an actual bounce is received. In the interim, only warning messages will be received. On an active mailing list, there could be a lot of messages in those fives, all of which will (eventually) bounce.

After either mailman auto-unsubscribes the user, or the admin manually does it, all those queued bounces become `unrecognized', causing additional (not useful) mail to the admin.

(I'm using mailman 2.1.2 under Linux.)

Thanks, karl@freefriends.org

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