On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:05, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:36:07 -0400 > Aaron Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi -- > > > > Please bear with me. I'm relatively new to mailman, and I freely > > admit I don't know a pickle from a VERP from a pumpkin. :-) > > > > One of our lists is fairly critical: if a message doesn't get > > delivered, the list owner needs to know about it so that she can > > send a hard copy instead. Unfortunately, the list of email > > addresses which was used to populate this list is known to contain > > several bad addresses, but no one knows *which* addresses are bad. > > I'd like a way to have all bounces to > > go her, or, in the worst case, to me or to a file or something, so > > that she can go an follow up on each bad email address and either > > track down the correct one and fix it or delete it from the list. > > We can't afford to let bounce processing wait for five bounces > > before notifying the list owner. > > > > The obvious solution is to set bouce_score_threshhold to 0. > > Unfortunately, I didn't realize this was going to be necessary > > until an important announcement was sent to the list already. My > > questions are: > > > > 1 - am I on the right track with bounce_score_threshhold=0 ? > > 2 - is there a way to dump out all of the bounces to a file so I > > can pass it to the list owner? Where are bounces 'stored' ? > > > > Please forgive my ignorance about the internals of mailman. > > > > thanks! > > > > - Aaron Bennett > > > > This is your lucky day. There is a bounce log kept! > /path/to/mailman/logs/bounce > > -- > Raquel
This may also be helpful - a thread with some scripts for automatically alerting you of bounces. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg15247.html You could certainly set this up to alert you on a daily basis. Good luck - Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
