[Mailman-Users] Probe message bounce bounced (with qmail)

[Mark Sapiro]

David Cuenca wrote:
>
>The failure notice message I receive is:
>
>Hi. This is the qmail-send program at myserver.mydomain.foo
>I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!
>
><mylist-bounces+6e42959622d8afee48a3f60818984529c7ecd088 at lists.mydomain.foo>:
>...
>
>
>
>In the Defaults.py file I have:
>
># VERP format and regexp for probe messages
>
>VERP_PROBE_FORMAT = '%(bounces)s+%(token)s'


This controls the format of the address in the probe and makes it look
like what you see above.


>VERP_PROBE_REGEXP = r'^(?P<bounces>[^+]+?)\+(?P<token>[^@]+)@.*$'


This controls how Mailman parses the address in a probe bounce, but the
probe bounce doesn't get to Mailman, so it doesn't come into play.

>And I have the files:
>
>.qmail-default with:
>
>	|preline /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qmail-to-mailman.py
>
>.qmail-mylist-bounces-default with:
>
>	|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces myslist
>
>
>I have mailman-2.1.5 and qmail-1.03 running.


I don't know qmail configuration, but what I'm guessing is happening is
some VERP configuration is missing from qmail so that qmail doesnt
recognize that mail to
<mylist-bounces+6e42959622d8afee48a3f60818984529c7ecd088 at lists.mydomain.foo>
(or for that matter
<mylist-bounces+anything_at_all at lists.mydomain.foo>) should be
delivered as if it were addressed to
<mylist-bounces at lists.mydomain.foo>.

>
>So, I see that the bounces are counted properly until the probe message 
>is generated. I suppose that the user that causes the bounce message 
>will not be disabled, because mailman don't receives the probe message 
>bounce.

I think you are correct.

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