>>>>> "J" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:05:45 -0500 writes:
J> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:52:07 +0100
J> Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My problem is that I get about 50 "Uncaught bounce notification"s per
>> day, only few of which are spam/virus related.
J> Turn on VERP for a few days.
J> --
J> J C Lawrence
J> ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
J> [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh?
J> http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Thank you, "J", for the suggestion,
but that seems not an option for two reasons
1) we (currenly must) use sendmail and that doesn't seem to
support VERPing -- or at least we haven't found docu on that
2) VERP will probably cost quite a bit of CPU/memory/disk-IO
resources on the mail servert. Currently that server almost
constantly runs on load 2.5 -- 3
(because of anti-virus / anti-spam / mailman ..)
------
OTOH, most of these "uncaught bounce notification" can quite
easily resolved by a human, i.e., the subscriber's e-mail can
very often be found in the bounce.
E.g., if they resend the full headers, I can find the proper
subscriber's address in a "Received:" header such as
Received: from hypatia.math.ethz.ch ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [129.132.58.23])
by cryforhelp.mr.itd.umich.edu (umich) with ESMTP id hAB7NrHc014893
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:23:53 -0500
(hypatia is our own mail server)
I.e., I think mailman's analysis of the bounce message leaves
room for improvement. Can you tell me where in the python code
this happens (so we might consider improving it here)?
Best regards,
and thank you all for mailman!
Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND
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