I've noticed that a few of my list subscribers are using AOL's functions to block email from certain senders, who are on my lists. So as a list admin, I get all these AOL bounces. Is there a simple script that can be used to direct these nastygrams bacl to their AOL user, so that the user can get nagged instead of me?
The message looks something like:
FROM: Mail Delivery Subsystem TO: <list-admin>
Your message was not delivered because the user is not accepting mail from helpless@hotmail.com.
aolusernameNote that the aolusername isn't followed by "@aol.com", like it should be, to be parsed as a bounce.
Bob
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:13:23 -0500 "Bob Puff@NLE" <bob@nleaudio.com> wrote:
If it was my list, I would just write the AOL users and ask them to remove the block, and if they don't you'll have to unsubscribe them.
-- Raquel
One is not born a woman, one becomes one. --Simone de Beauvoir
I have this problem too, though it's not severe, and frankly, the guy being blocked is moderately awful, so would be pretty bad to a less insensitive person than myself :)
I prefer that they can block each other, since it keeps them from responding to each other and flaming. I also would rather though that the sender got the bounce, so that he would know he was being dissed :)
So I'm also interested in the answer. Currently running 2.0.?? but migrating to 2.1 as we speak :)
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You would have to modify the source to handle this special situation bounce.
The bounce given has a specific code associated with it (or at least it should). You could use that code to scan the message in the Bounce module of Mailman and then redirect the bounce as appropriate.
You might want to simply setup a filter on your own mail and dump these. Your option.
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:41, Ed Greenberg wrote:
"It was written once upon a time (by Raquel Rice):"
Individual AOL users don't have the ability to control the block. It's AOLs inbound mail handlers that are determining that the source machine is somehow "tresspassing" by not using the ISP outgoing mail servers for access to them.
This particular "tresspassing by dial-up machines" meme has infected several of the larger ISPs lately. Most notable are AOL and RoadRunner. I had to start using a "smart host" for all my outgoing mail because of this viscious meme.
-- Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U "The Line Eater is a Hug your wolf. Boojum Snark"
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:13:23 -0500 "Bob Puff@NLE" <bob@nleaudio.com> wrote:
If it was my list, I would just write the AOL users and ask them to remove the block, and if they don't you'll have to unsubscribe them.
-- Raquel
One is not born a woman, one becomes one. --Simone de Beauvoir
I have this problem too, though it's not severe, and frankly, the guy being blocked is moderately awful, so would be pretty bad to a less insensitive person than myself :)
I prefer that they can block each other, since it keeps them from responding to each other and flaming. I also would rather though that the sender got the bounce, so that he would know he was being dissed :)
So I'm also interested in the answer. Currently running 2.0.?? but migrating to 2.1 as we speak :)
</edg>
You would have to modify the source to handle this special situation bounce.
The bounce given has a specific code associated with it (or at least it should). You could use that code to scan the message in the Bounce module of Mailman and then redirect the bounce as appropriate.
You might want to simply setup a filter on your own mail and dump these. Your option.
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 13:41, Ed Greenberg wrote:
"It was written once upon a time (by Raquel Rice):"
Individual AOL users don't have the ability to control the block. It's AOLs inbound mail handlers that are determining that the source machine is somehow "tresspassing" by not using the ISP outgoing mail servers for access to them.
This particular "tresspassing by dial-up machines" meme has infected several of the larger ISPs lately. Most notable are AOL and RoadRunner. I had to start using a "smart host" for all my outgoing mail because of this viscious meme.
-- Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U "The Line Eater is a Hug your wolf. Boojum Snark"
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