[Mailman-Users] control mail distribution ..

[Mark Sapiro]

On 1/23/2011 12:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Khalil Abbas wrote:
> 
>> well this is much comforting, meaning that there is nothing to worry about 
>> the configuration.. I turned on the "Should Mailman notify you, the list 
>> owner, when bounces cause a member's subscription to be disabled?" to yes to 
>> see what happens..
>>
>> but still this does not answer the main question, what causes the existing 
>> real members to be unsubscribed? is it because hotmail and yahoo are 
>> rejecting the mail flow that needs to be controlled?
> 
> 
> When you see some actual disabling bounce notifications, you will
> hopefully be able to answer that for yourself. Until then, I don't
> know what causes it.


I also looked more closely at the smtp log you sent earlier. There are a
huge number of mailman generated notices that originate from
BounceRunner. All lists appear affected. I think these are unrecognized
bounce notifications. I have suggested before that there may be a large
amount of spam being sent to the LIST-bounces addresses, but there may
also be a mail loop of some kind. I suggest that you make sure that each
list's (including the 'mailman' list) owner attribute contains only
deliverable addresses and that none of the LIST-* addresses are among
them. Similarly, if there are any moderator addresses, they must be
deliverable and must not include any LIST-* addresses and shouldn't
duplicate any owner addresses for the same list.

Also try sending an email to the LIST-owner addresses to verify such
mail is received.

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