Dear list,
I was going through the bounce log and came across a few lines which made me scratch my head:
Jul 30 19:09:55 2003 (16079) bounce message with non-members of mail-news: lucinda.healey@chhm.com
Jul 30 19:24:15 2003 (16079) bounce message with non-members of mail-news: ".slob85"@hotmail.com
checking the addresses indiviually I found that they were part of our lists. So I did some research (asked the local guru) who passed me following snippet.
if not foundp:
# It means an address was recognized but it wasn't an address
# that's on any mailing list at this site. BAW: don't forward
# these, but do log it.
syslog('bounce', 'bounce message with non-members of %s: %s',
listname, COMMASPACE.join(addrs))Quite clearly to me the addresses in question need to be stripped() and unquoted when compared with existing addresses; it seems quoting is necessary for all addresses which begin or end in "." This might improve Mailman's bounce recognition considerably. There were other things I came across which might also be possible but would require considerably more complex to implement.
I'm not very good with CVS or code in general so I would have to submit a function or module patch en bloc to someone who knows what to do with it.
Charlie