Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

"Superticker2 (Mark)" schrieb: > If there's a service or utility that can verify a list of email addresses > (prior to a mass operation), please suggest it. is a Perl script to check the validity of a mail address (by trying a SMTP dialog up to RCPT

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

Years and years ago (2000, I think), I implemented a script in PHP that allows us to test whether our server will be able to deliver to an email address. It's based on some code by Jon S. Stevens (google that + "validateEmail" and you'll find examples). It first does a DNS lookup for the MX record

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

Superticker2 (Mark) wrote: > >If there's a service or utility that can verify a list of email addresses >(prior to a mass operation), please suggest it. There are some. See for example or try this google search

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >Superticker2 (Mark) writes: > > > I appreciate your suggestion to set bounce_processing=1, > > bounce_score_threshold=0, but wouldn't this would cause "existing > > addresses" with scores at "2" to be removed immediately, which we don't > > want to do. We want the exi

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

What might be simplest solution here would be to temporarily (say for 40 minutes) switch bounce processing off just _before_ a Mass Subscribe/Invite operation so that all bounces are copied to the list owner. Ideally, we only care about the bounces for the last Mass Operation, but the implementati

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Suggestions about Mailman bounce processing

Let me respond to each of your comments: 1) We are a University campus group and the University currently provides a Mailman service to us. During our bi-annual university Club Fair, we can collect 200 email addresses--on paper--from prospective students/staff wanting on our list. Many are Asian