Re: [Mailman-Developers] why no user disable of the monthly reminder?
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 07:22:36 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
Oh, and one more thing (thanks for reminding me). the password reminders aren't really hooked into the bounce-processed setup, since they get sent back to a list admin address, and not necessarily one the user is actually subscribed to. We're losing a major opportunity to clean up the mail lists here, especially when it comes to non-standard mailers and forwarded addresses. These really ought to be sent from a special address with a special envelope, so returns can be processed for site-wide removal (IMHO, if the password reminder bounces for any reason, that qualifies as removal. I'm going to have to pull the data out of bounce files monday and manually hack something up...
Agreed, and I'll add that the password reminders really need to be VERPed. Of course this will have to be optional for those MTAs which are not VERP happy, but the password reminders are just too cherry an opportunity to overlook for removing addresses which you *CAN'T* deduce from bounce message processing (mail forwards etc).
-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows
On Sunday, June 3, 2001, at 10:46 AM, J C Lawrence wrote:
Agreed, and I'll add that the password reminders really need to be VERPed. Of course this will have to be optional for those MTAs which are not VERP happy, but the password reminders are just too cherry an opportunity to overlook for removing addresses which you *CAN'T* deduce from bounce message processing (mail forwards etc).
Definitely. and I've sent the lsat few days immersed in postfix documentation, and it has some real interesting stuff that can be used for optimizing some of what I do. I really like the idea of a direct mysql interface, since it means I can load most of my configuration data into a central server and not have to worry about migrating it out to the farm anymore. It also makes doiing thigns like a distributed list server possible, since you can have two or three boxes out in round robin, and you can tweak the aliases data in the database to have them route list info to processing boxes on the fly, so you can load balance across multiple machines.
Lots of fun stuff here, although it might not be approppriate for a general mailman release, since it can't depend on these functions, I'm guessing.
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