[Mailman-Developers] Bouncing administrative mail

[Scott]

would it suffice to set the bounce options to "disable and don't
notify me" when the list administrator address is not local?

scott

On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 03:14:35PM +0300, Janne Sinkkonen wrote:
| 
| It seems that in 1.0b1.2 there's a serious problem with bouncing
| administrative mail. I hope this is corrected in later versions and
| apologize if I'm reporting an old problem.
| 
| We have a big list here with the administrator now outside of the
| local site (local \equiv where mailman is run).
| 
| Last weekend the network connection to outside world was
| down. Administrative mail for the big list could not be delivered. As
| a result, some error messages where generated about pending mail
| ("undelivered for 4 hours" etc.), but apparently an Errors-To or some
| other header of the administrative messages caused the warnings to be
| delivered to the list-admin. These, of course, generated even more error
| messages about pending mail.
| 
| As a result, I had 22000 messages in my mail queue this morning.
| 
| -- 
| Janne
| 
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