Harald Meland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Greg Stark] > > > Before removing a subscriber mailman should send a message with > > known content testing the address. Only if such a message bounces > > should a user be dropped. > > Uhm... what parts of such a known content message do you think can > safely be assumed to still be discernible when Mailman receives the > bounce message?
You've misunderstood me. I'm not suggesting it should expect the bounce message to have known content. What I'm suggesting is that Mailman should *send* a message with known content itself, and only if that message bounces should it decide the address is invalid. This is what ezmlm does. As much as I dislike ezmlm and qmail for other reasons and like Mailman for other reasons, this is one thing it gets right and Mailman gets wrong. Deciding an address is invalid on the basis of messages posted to the list is bogus. Mailman can't know whether the message posted to the list bounced because the address was invalid, or merely because the content of that particular message triggered a content-based filter. -- greg _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers