[Mailman-Users] How to view bounce mails

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu Apr 29 18:35:30 CEST 2010


Andy Smith wrote:
>
>I can't see an option for Mailman to copy bounces to list or site
>admin, only the option for it to forward unrecognised bounces. These
>bounces are being recognised, but I'd still like to see their
>content.
>
>Is there a good way besides copying the list's bounces address to
>me?


No.

If you have bounce_notify_owner_on_disable set to Yes, the disable
notice will contain a copy of the triggering bounce, but other than
that, the actual bounce messages are not available in Mailman so if
you want to see them all, copying the list's bounces address to
yourself is what you need to do. Either that or hack the code to do a
"forward every bounce" function.

Note however that some bounces will be reported by your own outgoing
MTA and information about those will be in the MTA logs.

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