Larry: Thank you. What was not clear to me was who discarded the message. You're saying it was my own provider. That explains a lot. I thought it was the recipient.
If my provider is blocking the last few names on my low-volume list, I've got a serious problem. Thanks again for explaining so clearly and patiently. Skipper Larry Stone wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Robert Boyd Skipper wrote: > >> Ok. Here is another problem. >> >> Today, I found that the subscriptions of twenty or so members have been >> disabled for >> excessive bounces. The message accompanying each disabled subscription is: >> >> ":fail: Domain skipperweb.org has exceeded the max emails per hour. Message >> discarded. >> >> Now, this is odd, because there seems to have been only one message sent out >> for the >> whole day. > > The message seems pretty self-explanatory to me. It sounds like your > provider limits you to a certain number of outgoing messages per hour and > you've exceeded it. > > Depending on how you have mailman configured and how your your provider > counts e-mails (by message or by recipient), one e-mail to the list will > generate one or more outgoing messages. If you have VERP or full > personalization turned on, then each message to the list will generate one > outgoing message for each recipient. > > For example, with VERP on, if you have 120 members, then you generate 120 > outgoing messages. If the limit is 100 per hour, then at least 20 of them > will bounce (the exact number will depend on how many other outgoing > messages you've sent that hour for other reasons, e.g., you message to > this list). > >> I did not receive any previous bounce notifications from these >> addresses, so if they are bouncing something with my listname on it, it >> isn't coming back to me in any way that I can find it. > ... >> I have bounce processing turned on. The bounce_score_threshold is set >> for 5.0. > > With bounce processing turned on, you don't get notified until the bounce > threshold is exceeded. Until then, the bounces get logged in the Mailman > bounce log but that's it. So all of them have bounced five times before > you were notified. > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/robert%40skipperweb.org > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > -- Robert Boyd Skipper P.O. Box 593 Wimberley, TX 78676 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
