[Mailman-Developers] Handling bounces correctly?

[Colin Mackinlay]

On Mon 04 Mar, Dan Mick wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, OK.
> 
> I guess that's how it's designed:
> 
>             # Otherwise, we should just forward this message to the list
>             # owner, because there's nothing we can do with it.  Be sure to
>             # point the envelope sender at the site owner for any bounces to
>             # list owners.
> 
> (from Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py)
> 
> Seems like making that behavior configurable might be useful.
> 
> But the real issue is that the bounce message is *so* nonstandard.
> It didn't match *any* of the stuff in Mailman/Bouncers, and there
> are a lot of tests there.  I'd complain to the postmaster at that
> site and tell him to please configure DSNs like all good mailhosts
> should be doing.
> 
Thanks for that. I'll follow it up and have a good look deeper inside
mailman to satisfy my own curiosity.
-- 
Colin Mackinlay