On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:46:40AM +0000, Richard wrote: > > > > Date: Sunday, February 28, 2016 21:07:19 -0500 > > From: Ruben Safir <ru...@mrbrklyn.com> > > > > Ah - ok I'm learning something at least.. > > > > Mostly some address bounces, cruft from the list 4 list sends > > sandwiched in betweem at 17:17:14 and change. > > > > Two things about this bother me. Previously with majordomo this > > wasn't a problem but WHY is mailman not marking bounces and > > removing them from the list. > > > > I know I am asking the wrong list. > > As I remember it, mailman doesn't remove an address from a list > immediately as it could be a transient issue. Rather it removes > addresses based on a configured number of non-deliverable instances > (rejects and bounces) over a definable period of time. How you set > those values generally depends on how busy a list is and how dirty > the address base seems to be (and how willing you are to get your > mail server in trouble with sites that don't like high volumes of > bad addresses).
Its been months though. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but my view of mailmans software archetecture, at this point, is very low. He tries very hard to help people and to work on it, but I think it is broken at the core. For one thing, you do not need a memory resident program to handle a mailing list... or even 100 lists. > > I haven't looked at the mailman documentation in some time, but > suspect that this is covered there in more detail. > -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
