Perhaps this is on the feature request list already, or better yet, Barry borrowed Guido's time machine when I wasn't looking, however...
I help administer a number of python.org mailing lists. MM sends out subscription reminders on the first of each month. This inevitably leads to a huge number of mail bounces many of which MM doesn't understand. The python.org postmaster folk then get to go in and manually remove a ton of email addresses. (Looks like about 100 this month. I'm sure other sites have to handle many more such bounces.) I don't know how to automate this. The best thing I can think of to do is to write an Emacs macro which copies a highlighted email address, pops over to a shell mode window ssh'd into mail.python.org and runs remove_members with the given address. That's still more manual than I would like, but given the variability in bounce formats that seems about as good as I can do without expending a lot of effort. I realize that getting Mailman to grok more rejection notice formats is a worthwhile goal, however I think it would also be helpful to spread the pain of invalid email addresses more evenly through the month, at least across mailing lists but ideally within mailing lists. Notification day for any given email might be ord(email[0]) % 28 + 1 This would be close enough for gummint work (the 29th, 30th and 31st would be declared to be postmaster holidays). -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9