> The stale bounce info is not reset until another bounce arrives. Thus, > old bounce info usually remains forever, but it does no harm. If a new > bounce arrives, the stale info will be forgotten and the user given a > score of 1 with the current date. >
Hmmm, so when it says specifically "The number of days after which a member's bounce information is discarded, if no new bounces have been received in the interim." It doesn't actually mean it. It means number of days after which a member's bounce information is discarded if we happen to get another bounce. Hmmm. Not good. Ah, if only it were true that it does no harm. Following scenario: for various reasons, the bounces were set exceptionally high on a list: 300. Now a new administrator takes over, sees that things aren't as they should be. Says, hmmm, we should lower that into reality and lose all these dead accounts I know we are carrying, lowers the number to 7. Suddenly, a lot of perfectly good users get hit with disable's. Secondly, the behavior is baffling to the admin, because the text for the bounce_info_stale_after is clear that these old bounces should have been discarded. Thanks for your knowledge here tho, that explains what I am seeing. -John > > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 07:50 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > John Withers wrote: > > > > > >I have a problem in that user's bounces aren't resetting. The > > >bounce_info_stale after value seems to be being ignored. I have > > users > > >who's last bounce was in 2005 and we have sent literally thousands > > of > > >emails to them since then. Th bounce_info_stale_after value is 7. > > But > > >they are still showing 10 bounces from 2005 and prior. > > > > > >Could anyone tell me why this would happen and how I might be able > > to > > >prevent it in the future? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
