The issue is not whether it was obvious or not, the issue is that this new feature cannot even be turned off, just changed to a different format. Since there are many configurations out there that might not work with VERP I find introducing a feature that is on by default and that cannot be turned off causing more harm than doing good.
---------------------------------------- MANA TANGATA > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Knowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:30 AM > To: Somuchfun > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: Bounceremoval parameters default values > > At 1:14 AM -0700 2004-06-25, Somuchfun wrote: > > > Oh, we did test it for a while but this is the kind of > problem that you > > do not encounter lightly in a test environment. And on top > it would have > > helped if the mailman dev team would have published this > major change in > > bounce processing! > > They did. Close to the top of the file > mailman-2.1.5/NEWS is the > following section: > > - The bounce processor has been redesigned so that now > when an address's > bounce score reaches the threshold, that address will > be sent a probe > message. Only if the probe bounces will the address > be disabled. The > score is reset to zero when the probe is sent. Also, > bounce events are > now kept in an event file instead of in memory. This > should help > contain the bloat of the BounceRunner. > > New supporting variables in Defaults.py: VERP_PROBE_FORMAT, > VERP_PROBE_REGEXP > > REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY is promoted to a Defaults.py variable. > > > > If your MTA doesn't support VERP, then this should have been > pretty obvious to you. > > -- > Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. > > SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org
