monthly password reminders
I run a server with a few hundred lists. When the monthly password
reminders are sent they are sent from mailman-owner and so the
bounces come back to the main mailman-bounces address. Is there a way
to have them come from the list so they are returned to the
individual list owners?
Con Wieland University of California at Irvine
Con Wieland wrote:
I run a server with a few hundred lists. When the monthly password
reminders are sent they are sent from mailman-owner and so the
bounces come back to the main mailman-bounces address. Is there a way
to have them come from the list so they are returned to the
individual list owners?
Since the reminders may be for multiple list subscriptions, they can't come from a single list other than the site list. The alternative would be to send an individual reminder for each subscription. I think this would be too burdensome for people subscribed to multiple lists.
Note that bounces of password reminders should be rare unless you never deal with them. Normally they will only occur under one of three scenarios
the member has set delivery off and forgotten about the list and then the member's address died.
the list is dormant.
the list doesn't do bounce processing or doesn't have effective settings for bounce processing.
Under all other circumstances, normal bounce processing will remove the member.
I recognize that dealing with these can be a burden for site admins, especially on first upgrading from pre 2.1.11 where these bounces were never seen and there can be a lot of them, but once they are dealt with, the ongoing occurrence should be minor.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 3-Aug-2009, at 12:06, Con Wieland wrote:
I run a server with a few hundred lists. When the monthly password
reminders are sent they are sent from mailman-owner and so the
bounces come back to the main mailman-bounces address. Is there a
way to have them come from the list so they are returned to the
individual list owners?
No, because reminders are sent from mailman, not from each list.
If subscribe to several lists at one domain (one mailman install, to
be perfectly accurate), I only get one reminder message.
I think you can have your list-owners be subscribe to the mailman list
though.
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LuKreme wrote:
I think you can have your list-owners be subscribe to the mailman list
though.
In the case of password reminder bounces, that won't help because Password reminders come from the site list and bounces of messages from the site list are not sent to the list just as ordinary list bounces are not sent to the list. In the case of the site list however, there is no automated bounce processing. Site list bounces are sent to the addresses listed as 'owner' of the site list.
See the comments in the _dispose() method in Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py for some information as to why this is done.
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