Hi Mark, > My best guess here is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Yes, that was correct. And hence the mails were getting into a bounce loop. I have removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was soooo stupid to do it in the first place, but this was a great learning for me. All is good now. Thanks Tom On 2/23/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Kavanaugh wrote: > > > >I modified the Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py per you suggestions. > >The unix_sysadmin-bounce emails now get redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >That is the good part. > > > >But what is happening now is that the mailman server keeps spitting out > >these emails to the mailman mail list. Every few minutes I am bomarded > with > >these emails from the mailman mail list. The relevant contents are: > > > You asked how to redirect bounces to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address (the > posting address for the site list) and that's what's happening. > > > >Reporting-MTA: dns; utc80.name.com > >Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost > >Arrival-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:13:39 -0800 (PST) > > > >Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Action: failed > >Status: 5.1.1 > >Remote-MTA: DNS; mailhost.name.com > >Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User > >=09unknown > >Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:13:39 -0800 (PST) > > > > > > > >Seems that the mailman server (utc80) is re-trying to send to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED], although it knows that this is an unknown > >user. > > > Mailman doesn't know anything about what addresses are or are not > deliverable, and since you have effectively disabled automatic bounce > processing, it can never find out. > > My best guess here is that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member > of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. If that's not it, I don't know what is. > Does that notice contain a copy of the original message? if so, what > is it? Or does it keep growing as the same bounce keeps rebouncing? > > This is an interesting issue. Every message from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > list had better be deliverable or you will get a bounce loop. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
