[Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

[Kirke Johnson]

I have been attempting to test out the bounce processing on a test 
list and am confused by the results so far. We are running Mailman 
2.1.9 on RHEL, installed with the OS.

The test list (tsstst) has the following settings:

bounce_score_threshold: 1.0 (originally 5.0)
bounce_info_stale_after: 7
bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings: 0 - for immediate removal (originally 3)
bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval: 7

I have sent four test messages thus far, with an invalid list member 
"bogus at example.org". The first two tests were on 1/22. The first one 
detected the bounce and issued the unsubscribe notification that 
"bogus at example.org has been removed from Tsstst". The member was 
still listed in the membership list, and did not go away when 
/usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled ran the next morning. The second 
message on the 22nd did not yield a bounce.

Today (still within the 7 day warning interval), I sent two more test 
messages with the identical results. Running 
"/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members -n bybounce tsstst" as suggested 
below produces no output.

Is there another way to examine the counters inside the "black box" 
to see what is going on? I can conceive of this process dragging on a 
couple more days before the original disabled_warnings threshhold of 
3 is reached and the disabled cron job has a final chance to run, if 
that is even worth doing at this point.

Thanks for your help in supporting Mailman!

At 10:49 PM 12/20/2008, you wrote:
>faisal anif wrote:
> >
> >I have the following settings:
> >
> >bounce_score_threshold: 2.0
> >bounce_info_stale_after: 7
> >bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings: 0 - for immediate removal
> >bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval: 7
> >
> >then I notice that the addresses that have delivery disabled for 
> bounce reason is still in the members list and not completely 
> removed from the list .. which is not good becasue I want them 
> totally removed and know the exact number of active members ..
> >
> >how can I do that?
>
>
>The settings you have will do that. If you recently reduced
>bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings to 0 from some other number, those
>members whose delivery was disabled by bounce at the time of the
>reduction will still get the number of warnings they were set to get
>when their delivery was disabled before they are removed. Also,
>cron/disabled has to be run in order to send the warnings and
>ultimately remove the members.
>
>If you don't want to wait for these to be automatically removed, you
>can always remove them via the admin interface or if you have command
>line access, do
>
>bin/list_members -n bybounce LISTNAME | bin/remove_members -f - LISTNAME
>
>which will remove all members with delivery disabled by bounce.
>
>In any case any members who in the future bounce on two out of seven
>days will be immediately removed.
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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