Hi all,
I have a question about the mailman bounce procedure. Is it possible to obtain a list of bounces that were removed from the list due to a high "score"? Essentially what I want to do is create a list of members that were removed from the list due to bounces and present that list to the list owner. Is there a built in function that can do it, or is there a way I can do it manually? If this question has already been addressed in the FAQ, I apologize, I might have missed it (there were a lot of topics). If you can just point me in the right direction in that case, I would be very grateful.
Cheers,
Sam
Salvatore D'Agostino wrote:
I have a question about the mailman bounce procedure. Is it possible to obtain a list of bounces that were removed from the list due to a high "score"? Essentially what I want to do is create a list of members that were removed from the list due to bounces and present that list to the list owner. Is there a built in function that can do it, or is there a way I can do it manually? If this question has already been addressed in the FAQ, I apologize, I might have missed it (there were a lot of topics). If you can just point me in the right direction in that case, I would be very grateful.
The easiest way to do this would be to create some script to sumarize this information from Mailman's bounce log.
You can obtain a list of members whose delivery has been disabled by bounce processing who haven't yet been removed from the list with Mailman's
bin/list_members --nomail=bybounce LISTNAME
but this won't get those whove already been removed. You have to get that from the bounce or subscribe logs.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Hi all,
I have a question about the mailman bounce procedure. Is it possible to obtain a list of bounces that were removed from the list due to a high "score"? Essentially what I want to do is create a list of members that were removed from the list due to bounces and present that list to the list owner. Is there a built in function that can do it, or is there a way I can do it manually? If this question has already been addressed in the FAQ, I apologize, I might have missed it (there were a lot of topics). If you can just point me in the right direction in that case, I would be very grateful.
Cheers,
Sam
From there it is a short hop to having a script running under cron
Hello Sam (and others), I had a similar-ish scenario a few weeks back. Quick story: the Mailman setup here had a short spate of auto-unsubscribing people from various lists at 9am every day for about four days. One of the lists had about 100 people removed in one morning and the list owner queried whether I could supply them with a list of those who were unsubscribed . The easy solution I found was to grep the 'subscribe' logfile for the listname and the phrase 'auto-unsubscribe' which returns lines like: Mar 11 09:00:02 2009 (1577) somelist: *******@***.***.net auto-unsubscribed [reason: BYBOUNCE] Looking into it a bit further I found that the 'bounce' logfile records some (minorly) useful info about what it is doing. Doing a grep on the term 'disabled' returns lines such as: Mar 10 09:00:02 2009 (3577) Notifying disabled member ***@***.org for list: somelist What may be of most use to you however is to modify this grep to match the phrase "deleted after exhausting notices" which I believe is the error line given when an email address goes over its bounce score. This returns lines such as: Mar 12 09:00:02 2009 (3388) somelist: ******@********.com deleted after exhausting notices that'll grep through the bounce logfile, matching lines containing "deleted after exhausting notices" within the cronjob cycle period which would dump the output to stdio and so by default email back to you. Regards, Steff Watkins =======
Steff Watkins wrote:
Looking into it a bit further I found that the 'bounce' logfile records some (minorly) useful info about what it is doing. Doing a grep on the term 'disabled' returns lines such as:
Mar 10 09:00:02 2009 (3577) Notifying disabled member ***@***.org for list: somelist
The above log entry is written when a member whose delivery has been disabled by bounce is sent a warning message by cron/disabled.
What may be of most use to you however is to modify this grep to match the phrase "deleted after exhausting notices" which I believe is the error line given when an email address goes over its bounce score. This returns lines such as:
Mar 12 09:00:02 2009 (3388) somelist: ******@********.com deleted after exhausting notices
Actually, the above log entry is written when the member is removed from the list which may or may not be at the same time as when the member's score hits the threshold depending of bonce_you_are_disabled_warnings. When a member's score reaches the threshold, the bounce log entry is Mar 22 12:32:05 2009 (5641) LISTNAME: user@example.com disabling due to bounce score n.n >= n.n -- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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