[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Bounce action notification

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 03:40  PM, Dan Mick wrote:

> Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>> you go tell hotmail to fix itself, Barry.
>
> ...or tell your users to drop that piece of crap.
>
> yes yes, I know, millions on the Internet, elitist attitude, yadda 
> yadda.

nah, it's even simpler: if I take a "me or him" attitude, chances are, 
they'll choose "him". Not a fight I want to take (I'm already having 
too much fun with AOL, as my blog will show. sigh. grump. I have better 
things to do), and not a fight I feel I can win.

hotmail is a 500 pound gorilla. I leave tilting at windmills to the 
youngsters out there, and prefer quiet co-existance.

>> Seems to me, since it's fairly easy to parse the "this is a warning 
>> message" stuff, we ought to.
>
> It is?
>
> I've seen a *lot* of those sorts of messages.  Every two-bit MTA admin 
> in the world seems to want to customize his own.
>

In the bounce system I've been writing, I'm up to about 99.46% 
resolution, including throwing out of soft bounces like this (having 
recently whacked 3 million or so bounces down to 20,000, I think I've 
got a pretty good test sample, too). and half of what I can't process 
are @$#@%W%% first class bombosities.

so yes, it's fairly easy. I doubt mailman can get QUITE to the level of 
processing I am, because I'm able to do some stuff you might not be 
able to get away with, but the answer to the general question is "i've 
already done it".


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Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
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He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier.