[Mailman-Developers] Handling Bouncebacks

Carson Gaspar carson@taltos.org
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:22:27 -0700


--On Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:02 PM -0400 "Barry A. Warsaw" 
<barry@zope.com> wrote:

> The extensible bounce detection subsystem is implemented as modules in
> Mailman/Bouncers, with Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py as the main
> entry point.  Specifically, the function BouncerAPI.ScanMessages() is
> handed the message and the MailList instance.  It returns 1 if a
> bounce was detected and registered, and 0 if not.

Is it still this broken in 2.1? I thought you were going to add an "I 
parsed the bounce, and it was non-fatal, so please ignore it" return code. 
Right now, I either get swamped with non-fatals to -admin, or I unsub users 
for transient errors. Blech.

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Carson Gaspar - carson@taltos.org
Queen Trapped in a Butch Body