I subscribe to lots of mailman lists.
Sometimes, mailman disables my email address. I have no doubt that it's
for a good reason. However, that reason is for a certain group of users
fairly temporary (down server). As it stands, I periodically find out
that I've been disabled on fairly quiet lists that I don't expect to read
every day. It'd be nice if mailman could 'ping' the email address
periodically (once a week?) to find out if the problem is resolved.
Something progressively more expensive like
if ping_ok and SMTP_VRFY_ok and first_email_goes_in_queue_goes_through: undisable_email()
would do the job in 96% of the cases w/ low overhead, I suspect.
--david
"David Ascher" wrote:
if ping_ok and SMTP_VRFY_ok and first_email_goes_in_queue_goes_through: undisable_email()
would do the job in 96% of the cases w/ low overhead, I suspect.
There are quite a few MTAs that don't perform VRFY, either because they are configured like this or because they can't do it at all (e.g. qmail). Maybe "(SMTP_VRFY_ok or SMTP_VRFY_rej_252)" would do an even better job.
Detlef
"DA" == David Ascher <da@ski.org> writes:
DA> Sometimes, mailman disables my email address. I have no doubt
DA> that it's for a good reason. However, that reason is for a
DA> certain group of users fairly temporary (down server). As it
DA> stands, I periodically find out that I've been disabled on
DA> fairly quiet lists that I don't expect to read every day.
DA> It'd be nice if mailman could 'ping' the email address
DA> periodically (once a week?) to find out if the problem is
DA> resolved.You haven't read our TODO list have ya? :) Okay, it's buried in there (it's a biiiig todo list!):
*Bounce handling
- Reminders to disabled addresses. The idea is that if an addr is disabled due to bouncing, we should send out periodic reminders. We may want to do this for explicitly disabled addrs too, but perhaps with a different schedule.
-Barry
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