[Mailman-Users] AUTOMATIC UNSUBSCRIBE

[Dan Mick]

You mean like that List-Id right below?

The problem isn't telling that the message originally came from a
Mailman mailing list; the problem is telling if the bounce message

1) represents a user's email account is not accepting mail
2) has a user email address somewhere in it
3) may have multiple bounces collapsed into one
4) is representing a 'permanent' 'hard' failure rather than a
temporary 'advisory' 'soft' failure


> List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users <mailman-users.python.org>
> 
> 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
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