I've been administering mailman for 20-some odd years now; I don't think
I've ever seen an unrecognized bounce that wasn't someone who simply
replied to (or emailed directly because they'd added it to their
contacts/address book) the envelope "bounce" address.
--Gretchen
Gretchen Beck
Carnegie
> The theory is these may be legitimate bounces that just aren't recognized
> and the owner may want to see them and may even want to report them to the
> developers so the recognizers can be updated, but these days, such bounces
> are extremely rare so if one is getting a lot of spam to the
On 5/25/23 11:52 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt via Mailman-Users wrote:
In this case then what happens when such a bounce arrives? MM2.1 discards
it?
I think so
Yes, unrecognized bounces are not processed other than sending them to
the list owner if bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner => yes.
> > > These settings apply only to list posts, not to mail to the list-bounces
> > > address.
> >
> > But those can be disabled as well:
> > bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner => no
> > on the subpage "bounce"
> >
>
> In this case then what happens when such a bounce arrives? MM2.1 discards
>
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 9:34 AM Ralf Hildebrandt via Mailman-Users <
mailman-users@python.org> wrote:
> * Mark Sapiro :
> > On 5/25/23 10:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > > I think you need to change the list settings, hoping you have Admin
> rights:
> > >
> > > You need to change in Privacy
* Mark Sapiro :
> On 5/25/23 10:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > I think you need to change the list settings, hoping you have Admin rights:
> >
> > You need to change in Privacy options -> Sender Filters -> Action to take
> > for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is
