On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:49:30PM +0000, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Better bounce handling > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > We checked our bounce handling because we have more than 500 bounces > for some lists, and in the process found that we didn't have working > bounce handling for other lists (other-*, deity, *-digest, > debian-private). There were also problems in handling and recognizing > mailadresses containing = or ! characters. > > Bounces of debian-private subscription are still manualy handed by the > listmasters, but we now address these issues and forward such addresses to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To address the other mailing lists we rewrote some parts of our > bounce handler. > > While analysing the bounces streaming in, we found that a lot of bounces > are caused by content filters which reject listmail back to us (which > violates the RfC). Even worse: the majority of those are false > positives. > > To let those people know we'll implement a notification system, which > will notify users about bounces, and remind forcibly removed users about > their unsubscription. > > This is a service for those people with a temporarily unavailable or > broken mailbox, so they see that they (or their provider) has a broken > mail setup or resubscribe back to all lists after their mailaddress is > functional again. These notification will be sent out at a maximum of > once a week, up to a month after the last unsubscription happened. > > Both notification systems are in testing now and will be activated > shortly after this mail.
... and in a "do what i say, not what i do" fashion, the default sa-exim setup (at least in etch) leads to receiving bounce notification because of spam being rejected. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]