Travis Derouin wrote: > >I run a mailing list for a daily how-to newsletter for eHow.com. >Today, at least a few of us subscribed to the list, including myself, >received a false warning: > >"Your membership in the mailing list eHow has been disabled due to >excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated >18-Feb-2006. You will not get any more messages from this list until >you re-enable your membership. You will receive 3 more reminders like >this before your membership in the list is deleted."
You say it is a false warning. Does that mean you got the warning but your subscription delivery wasn't actually disabled, or that delivery was disabled but shouldn't have been? >This is definitely in error since I, and other people in our >organization, have been receiving the daily e-mail that is sent to our >list successfully. Can anyone explain why this would happen? Are you the list owner? Do you have the Bounce processing notifications, particularly bounce_notify_owner_on_disable, set to Yes? If so, the owner should receive a notice at the same time the user receives the above notice. The owner's notice will include a copy of the bounce message that triggered the disable which will help you see why this is happening. >Currently, to avoid having a mass panic and unsubscription from our >list, the best route I see is to include an apology for this false >warning to our users in our next newsletter and disable automatic >bounce processing to prevent this from happening again. Rather than disable bounce processing, you might just alter settings such as bounce_info_stale_after to be more agressive about discarding old bounce info. You can also go through the membership list and see how many members are disabled by bounce. If you have command line access to your Mailman, you can use 'bin/list_members --nomail=bybounce' to get this info. If you don't have command line access, and the list is too large to conveniently go through manually on the web, I have a modified version of the script at <http://starship.python.net/crew/jwt/mailman/#throughtheweb> which can screen scrape the web interface and build a "csv" output file containing the membership data. This modified version will eventually get to the above site, but in the meantime, you can get it at <http://veenet.value.net/~msapiro/mailman-subscribers.py> or <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/mailman-subscribers.py>. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
