On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:59:05AM -0500, s...@pobox.com wrote: > 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.
shove all the postmaster@ mails into one mailbox, and... awk/grep the email addresses and list name as a (c|t)sv'd line; select a list, and feed the email addresses to remove_members ? (maybe doing a check on the body content, too) cron that to happen at $interval, on Mailman-day +n, perhaps? I don't really have this problem, but very few of my lists (I think it may be ~300 now) send reminders. -- ``Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?'' (Keith Waterhouse) _______________________________________________ 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
