On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:59:05AM -0500, skip@pobox.com wrote:
Perhaps this is on the feature request list already, or better yet, Barry borrowed Guido's time machine when I wasn't looking, however...
I help administer a number of python.org mailing lists. MM sends out subscription reminders on the first of each month. This inevitably leads to a huge number of mail bounces many of which MM doesn't understand. The python.org postmaster folk then get to go in and manually remove a ton of email addresses. (Looks like about 100 this month. I'm sure other sites have to handle many more such bounces.) I don't know how to automate this. The best thing I can think of to do is to write an Emacs macro which copies a highlighted email address, pops over to a shell mode window ssh'd into mail.python.org and runs remove_members with the given address. That's still more manual than I would like, but given the variability in bounce formats that seems about as good as I can do without expending a lot of effort.
shove all the postmaster@ mails into one mailbox, and...
awk/grep the email addresses and list name as a (c|t)sv'd line; select a list, and feed the email addresses to remove_members ?
(maybe doing a check on the body content, too)
cron that to happen at $interval, on Mailman-day +n, perhaps?
I don't really have this problem, but very few of my lists (I think it may be ~300 now) send reminders.
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