On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:51:39 -0700, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Jeff Grossman wrote: > >>I have two umbrella lists. When a bounce gets received it doesn't do >>anything because the users are not subscribed to the umbrella list. Is >>there a way for me to set the umbrella lists up so all bounce messages >>are forwarded to my e-mail so I can make sure the bad e-mail addresses >>get removed? > > > Are these traditional umbrella lists where the sub-lists are members of > the umbrella, or are they 'regular include lists'? > > If the former, messages to the users should be coming from the > sub-lists and bounces should be handled correctly. > > If the latter, the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/TIA9> which discusses > this method points out that bounce processing doesn't work for > sub-list members. As to what you can do about it, if you have access > to the list's aliases, and if the 'umbrella' lists have no members, > you can change the alias for the 'umbrella-bounces' list to deliver to > you (or to 'umbrella-owner') so you can handle the bounces manually. > > The fact that the FAQ says "Note however, that currently (Mailman > 2.1.12) bounce processing won't work in this case ..." would seem to > imply that I intended to make it work in some future release, and I > may yet do so.
Thank you Mark. It is the latter method and I have changed the aliases to point to my e-mail account. This should work out just fine for what I am after. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org