[Mailman-Users] AUTOMATIC UNSUBSCRIBE

[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:32:47 -0500 
Oscar Valdez <oscar at colca.rcp.net.pe> wrote:

> Do you know if mailman can handle automatic bouce backs?  I mean
> if a user is susbscribed on 10 lists and the email server is down,
> can mailman automatic unsubscribe the user??

With caveats, yes.  The caveats are that Mailman accomplishes this
by attempting to parse the bounce messages.  Unfortunately there is
no standardised format for bounce mesasges so while Mailman parses
most of them successfully (and does **MUCH** better in the 2.x
series), it doesn't get them all.  Yet.

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