confirm_delay_cleared = yes vs. Mailman bounce management
Today I received a lot of unsubscription notifications for a certain list.
I grew suspicious and had a closer look. I found that Postfix was retrying the delivery for a lot of domains behind the same MX and was (finally) reporting the delivery after a long time of queueing for that MX host.
This was due to my non-default setting:
confirm_delay_cleared = yes
After sending a "your message is delayed" notification, inform the sender when the delay clears up. This can result in a sudden burst of notifications at the end of a prolonged network outage, and is therefore disabled by default.
The side effect was that these notifications increased the bounce score, although the delivery was successful.
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Mark Sapiro
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Ralf Hildebrandt