[Mailman-Developers] explaining bounce_score_threshold

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 20 18:22:38 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 04:31, PieterB wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with a bouncing e-mailadress (still
> investigating). I didn't really understand the bounce_score_threshold
> help text. Mailman 2.1.3 help text for the item is:
> 
> bounce_score_threshold (bounce): The maximum member bounce score before
> the member's subscription is disabled. This value can be a floating
> point number.
> 
> I think the explanation on 
> http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/owners/maintenance.html
> is much clearer. Can the text be changed to something like:
> 
> bounce_score_threshold (bounce): The maximum member bounce score
> before the member's subscription is disabled. Each subscriber is
> assigned a bounce score (floating point number) and every time
> Mailman encounters a bounce from this member, the score goes up.
> Hard bounces (meaning a fatal error) increase the score by 1, while
> soft bounces (meaning a temporary error occurred) increase the score
> by 0.5. Note that the bounce scores are only increased once per day
> so even if ten hard bounces are received for the same subscriber
> in one day, the subscriber's score will increase by only 1 for that
> day.

I probably won't use that verbatim, but I will try to flesh out the
details for bounce_score_threshold.  I've also asked the UW folks if
they mind me linking to their site.  While sometimes specific to the UW
installation, that site has a lot of good information.

-Barry





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