[Mailman-Users] My God! - Our List Host Is Dropping the use of Mailman

Richard Ellerbrock richarde at eskom.co.za
Mon Dec 6 07:43:52 CET 1999


>
>    | As you may recall when we set up your mailman list, it was
>    | as a trial of an experimental platform.
>
>    | Unfortunately, we have decided that it does not suit our
>    | customer's needs well enough.  Therefore, we are
>    | discontinuing the use of the mailman system, effective
>    | December 10.
>
>Well that sucks.  I wish they would have given some more details about
>their reasons.

Probably that bounce detection is not working too well and is clogging up their mail queues. I know I had to do quite a lot of work at my site to get bounces working correctly with my massive mailing lists.

There was a little discussion a while back around this issue on the list. Still seams fairly difficult to handle. So, not to be like the rest and to just complain, here is an interim suggestion.

Why not move the regex's used for bounce detection to an external file as an interim measure. This will allow patterns to be easily added without having to modify the source (as I had to do). In most cases with a little trouble, a regex can be written to extract the e-mail addresses. This will have to happen on a line basis and the regex's will have to be called for each line. Is this efficient?

The second most important issue is probably internationalization. Not relevant here, but people must understant that if their applications want to hit the big time (especially in todays Internet driven world), then they must cater for all languages.

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Richard Ellerbrock
richarde at eskom.co.za





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