On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> On 08/25/2016 12:28 PM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > > > I decided to set it up to clean out the cruft fast, and then I'd temper > it > > back a little. So I set it up like this: > > > > bounce_processing: yes > > bounce_score_threshold: 2.0 > > bounce_info_stale_after: 63 > > bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings: 0 > > bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval: 7 > > bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner: no > > bounce_notify_owner_on_disable: yes > > bounce_notify_owner_on_removal: yes > > > > It appears to have worked, but what I'm confused about is this: the last > > mailing went out on August 11th, and the list owners got 750 automatic > > unsubscribes yesterday. "bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings" set to zero > is > > supposed to mean that people are removed "immediately" ... but maybe that > > means "immediately, once some scheduled script or job runs"? Let me know > > what controls that, or if I'm maybe going the wrong direction here. I.e., > > does bounce processing only happens once every few weeks, perhaps? > > > No. You are on the right track, but there's a different issue here. > > With bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0, a user for whom a bounce is > received which increases her bounce score to or above > bounce_score_threshold will immediately have delivery disabled and be > unsubscribed. > > However, your 750 users still had delivery enabled, but had bounce > scores >= 2. You lowered the threshold to 2. This did nothing to those > users at that point, but the next time Mailman's cron/disabled ran, it > looked at the user's current bounce score that was now >= > bounce_score_threshold (which you just lowered) and called the list's > disableBouncingMember() method which resulted in the user's unsubscription. > > If you look in mailman's bounce log, you will see the 750 unsubscribes, > but if you look back to Aug 11 or before, I think you will see the users > had scores >= 2. > Thanks! I think I need to understand better what mailman does on schedule. Is there somewhere a brief description of those cron jobs? Best, Matt ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org