[Mailman-Users] AUTOMATIC UNSUBSCRIBE

[Scott Russell]

Just a silly thought. What if mailman put a X-listaddress header
into the mail message when it sent it out? I would think that chances
are that header would get returned somewhere in the bounced messages
and Mailman could parse for it as a first attempt then fall back
to traditional methods if it's not found.

Has anyone tested 2.x with Lotus Notes bounces? They're very
messy as the Notes client strips headers left and right for
breakfast. I'm not even sure it could be implimented for notes.

-- Scott

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:09:03PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> 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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Regards,
 Scott Russell (scottrus at raleigh.ibm.com)
 Linux Technology Center, System Admin
 Red Hat Certified Engineer