[Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe after just one hard bounce

Lloyd Tennison lists at viplist.us
Sun Oct 5 08:49:21 CEST 2008


What do the bounce logs say about that user? Did the bounce register?  Not 
all hard or soft bounces can be determined.  I actually scan my mail logs 
for hard bounces and delete them even faster than Mailman would.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Salm, PhD" <edward at LambdaEnt.com>
To: "mailman-users at python.org" <mailman-users at python.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:19:03 -0700
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe after just one hard bounce

> bounce_score_threshold = 1.0
> bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0
> 
> It's been 24 hours and the bogus user is still there.
> 
>  
> 
> On 10/4/08 3:04 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> > Edward Salm, PhD wrote:
> > 
> >> Do you mean that setting bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings to 0 should do 
the
> >> trick?
> >> 
> >> Well, I ran a test, using a bogus email address, and it has not. The 
address
> >> is still in the membership list, with nomail checked, reason [b].
> > 
> > 
> > I am saying that if bounce_score_threshold <= 1.0 and
> > bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0  at the time that mail is sent to
> > a member and that mail bounces, the member will be immediately
> > unsubscribed.
> > 
> > Perhaps this member already had delivery disabled by bounce when you
> > set bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0. Even if this was the case,
> > the member should be removed by cron/disabled after just
> > bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval days.
> > 
> > In fact, even if bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings > 0, the members will
> > be removed after (bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval X
> > bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings) days as long as cron/disabled is
> > being run daily.
> 
> 
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