Hey Mark, Thanks for the reply..
>>I maintain a medium sized mailing list (over 40000) to which a >>newsletter is sent out every few weeks. Till recently, I had no >>issues with this list, but after the last newsletter was sent >>out, I have started receiving "Bounce action notifications" by >>the truckload. > > > What are the list's bounce processing settings. It's possible > that this is the > first time you had enough posts close enough together to reach > the threshhold > for the truckload of undeliverable addresses on your list. This is what I think has happened, but I can't be sure. However, isn't this just too freaky that the threshold has been reached for all these addresses with the same newsletter? >> >>1. This is first time I am receiving these many bounce >>notifications. In fact, these notifications have not stopped >>coming since the newsletter was sent out. > > > Your system may be backlogged causing delays. You'd have to > look at Mailman's > logs and queues to see what might be going on. Ok, there is a backlog of about 65 messages, two days after the original message was sent. > > >>2. I have set my bounce notifications to NOT be sent out to the >>list owner. > > > Which one(s). These notices are controlled by > bounce_notify_owner_on_disable. > Yes this one. This is from the page Bounce Processing. I wasn't aware of any other flags? > >>3. The web accessible Mailman is extremely slow to respond to >>any >>requests. > > > See 1. above. Also, if you have a processing backlog, there > might be lock > contention slowing the web interface. > Ok, that does make sense. <snip> > >>I have restarted Mailman several times to no avail. I am >>running >>Mailman 2.1.9. > > > Restarting Mailman won't change this. If Mailman isn't running > and a bounce > arrives, it is still queued and processed when Mailman starts > again. If you > have any kind of backlog, stopping Mailman just makes things > worse by delaying > processing further. > Ok. Makes sense. So what would be the ideal way to stop these emails? Is there a way to stop all these emails or I just need to grin and bear it? More importantly, this doesn't indicate any issues with my Mailman configuration, right? Thanks, Vikram [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > 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
