/var/qmail/control/queuelifetime on daedalus is set to 180000, which is
the number of seconds beyond which an email is bounced as undeliverable.
When a message bounces, it's recorded by qmail; after ten days of bounces,
a probe is sent, and if that probe bounces, *then* the user is
unsubscribed. So I doubt it would be as fast as you mention, Niclas.
Without knowing what Niclas's email address is, I'm looking at the logs
for [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I see that [EMAIL PROTECTED] joined Nov 24th,
1999, and was removed by a probe on Jul 6th 2002. Then,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribed on Jan 2 2003, and has never been
unsubscribed. I do see messages being successfully delivered to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], though it appears that there are still some in the
queue that haven't been retried since the DNS change; I'll kick off a
queue sweep to get those out to him.
Brian
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Steven Noels wrote:
> On 26/03/2003 9:09 Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>
> > My mailserver had to change IP numbers on Monday evening here (due to a
> > spammer on the same C-block of numbers), and it took about 36hours for those
> > changes to spread in the DNS system on the net.
> >
> > During this period, it seems that I have been unsubscribed from all Apache
> > mailing lists. Isn't this "unsubscription period" a bit short?? Many ISPs are
> > cut off from the rest of the Internet for periods longer than that (recently
> > happened to TMnet users here in Malaysia).
> >
> > Anyone knows?
> >
> > Niclas
> >
>
> ezmlm does send probes to check for defunct mailboxes, and IIRC, there
> are some IP-address-based measures as well - but you really should ask
> these question on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> </Steven>
>
