On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 07:12:32PM +0300, Janne Sinkkonen wrote:

Well, I'm not sure it's quite as smooth as it could be.

Our network connection tends to go down for the weekend because of a broken router needing (ir)relegular reboots. This happened on Sunday once again, and this time the remote listowner got over 100MB worth of error messages. His ISP will filter the trash out of his mailbox for tomorrow, hopefully.

Furthermore, about 150 of roughly 800 members were kicked out of the list because of 'excessive or fatal bounces'. The network was down for about 24 hours. (Our bounce parameters may be too tight, of course.)

I haven't seen the variety of the generated messages yet.

Even if this were 'normal' in the sense that there are no message-generating loops, some kind of solution is needed to prevent excessive or fatal mail bombing of the listowners.

Wow. Is the field, "Minimum number of days an address has been non-fatally bad before we take action" set to 1 or 0 for that list? If not, either something got generated that was treated as a fatal bounce, or there's a bug in the bounce handling. Neither would surprise me too much. Like Barry said, though, we should switch to treating all bounces as non-fatal; it will simplify bounce processing a bit.

John