On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 04:31, PieterB wrote: > I'm having some trouble with a bouncing e-mailadress (still > investigating). I didn't really understand the bounce_score_threshold > help text. Mailman 2.1.3 help text for the item is: > > bounce_score_threshold (bounce): The maximum member bounce score before > the member's subscription is disabled. This value can be a floating > point number. > > I think the explanation on > http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/owners/maintenance.html > is much clearer. Can the text be changed to something like: > > bounce_score_threshold (bounce): The maximum member bounce score > before the member's subscription is disabled. Each subscriber is > assigned a bounce score (floating point number) and every time > Mailman encounters a bounce from this member, the score goes up. > Hard bounces (meaning a fatal error) increase the score by 1, while > soft bounces (meaning a temporary error occurred) increase the score > by 0.5. Note that the bounce scores are only increased once per day > so even if ten hard bounces are received for the same subscriber > in one day, the subscriber's score will increase by only 1 for that > day.
I probably won't use that verbatim, but I will try to flesh out the details for bounce_score_threshold. I've also asked the UW folks if they mind me linking to their site. While sometimes specific to the UW installation, that site has a lot of good information. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
