[Mailman-Users] went live - big mistake - please help

[xp xp]

Hello Mark,
Could you please let me know how to access smtp-log?
So the mailman will bounce if it can't send email to a valid email ID? how many attempts will it take before it quits?
I saw the email in the archives, but I cannot see who got it. Is there a feature where mailman can show which users got an email?
please help.
drb



----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
To: xp xp <bizzebee_xp at yahoo.com>
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:38:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] went live - big mistake - please help

xp xp wrote:

> I went big including hundreds of my members with mailman. THought
> everything was working, but not so. By default -automatic bounce
> processing is enabled and I found that it had checked 'nomail' [B]
> for several members eventhough they had a valid email ID Setting was
> at5.0. Then from admin interface I changed to 'mailman automatic
> procesing - No". Also unchecked all the members who had 'nomail' [B].
> This should rectify all users to get mails again. Unfortunately, when
> a new message was sent to listserv, some of my users didn't get it
> again. Can somebody help me please? drb

The mail to those members is bouncing. Turning off automated bounce 
processing isn't going to change that. It's just going to cause Mailman 
to ignore the bounces.

Look in Mailman's smtp-failure log to see if there is some problem 
showing there. If not, set bounce_processing to Yes and 
bounce_notify_owner_on_disable to Yes so you will see the actual bounce 
notices to see why they are bouncing.

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