Is this in the mailman3 doc? Like for what failure should we retry or discard the mail etc.
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, 04:02 Mark Sapiro, <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > On 3/11/19 1:45 PM, Aaryan Bhagat wrote: > > Are "temporary and permanent failures" mentioned in "bounce.py" in > "mailman/src/mailman/runners/" the same as "soft and hard bounces" > respectively? > > > No. A temporary failure is a 4xx (retryable) status and will cause > mailman to retry periodically for a configured time (defaults I think > are 15 minutes and 5 days). If the message is still not delivered after > the 5 days or whatever time, it is considered a bounce at that point. > > A permanent failure is a 5xx (failure) status and is recorded as a > bounce. All 5xx failures or failure DSNs are considered bounces. "Soft" > reasons like full mailbox or message looks like spam are not > distinguished from "hard" reasons like no such user. > > Whether or not a failure is considered retryable is up to the receiving > MTA. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ > Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > > Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list -- mailman-developers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-developers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-developers.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: https://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: https://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
