If that's the case, it would be nice if Mailman could e-mail the original sender to let them know the e-mail bounced. I sure don't remember getting any indication whatsoever that this happened. But I suppose that could explain what happened in both of our cases. It sure wasn't obvious from my standpoint though. It took me a couple of days to realize what was going on.
Dan On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 21:27, Jonathan Dill wrote: > This is somewhat OT, but I will answer to hopefully clear up any > questsion other people may have... > > If your e-mail bounces for any reason, delivery is automatically > disabled and a warning is sent to the list admin to let him or her know > that your account was disabled due to error(s). This is a feature of > the Mailman mailing list software (see www.list.org) which is designed > to prevent the adminstrator from being swamped with bounce messages, > prevent alias loops, and prevent bounce messages from getting back to > the list. I have been on some mailing lists, run on servers other than > mailman, where tons of bounces or alias loops got back to the lists, > which was extremely annoying. Although this disable feature is not an > ideal solution and sometimes causes confusion, I think it's better than > the potential results of not having it. > > Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > About a month or two ago this happened to me twice within about 4 days. > > I e-mailed the list about it but I don't remember getting any > > responses. So there is definitely a problem with the list software, but > > it's pretty sporadic. > > > > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:54, Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > It turns out that somehow my subscription got set to > > > > "turn delivery > > > > off". I'm pretty sure I didn't set it since today > > > > was the first day I > > > > learned such an option existed but somehow it got > > > > set. Anyway, I fixed > > > > it and I expect everthing to return to normal now. > > -- > "Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
