On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:54:58 -0700, Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff Grossman wrote: > >>I am running Mailman for two announcement only mailing list. It is >>running with no problems. I wanted to send out an announcement to all >>of my members without them getting a duplicate if they were on both >>lists. I created a new list called all yesterday. I put the two lists >>under the regular_include_lists setting. It ran perfect. But, I was >>wondering, how does the bounce handling work for that list? If a user >>bounces a message when I send to the all list, do they get removed from >>the other list they are actually on? The all list does not have any >>members associated with it. > > > Hmmm... You raise an interesting issue. The short answer is No. The > message is sent with envelope from all-bounces... and the bounce is > returned there and will be processed only for members of the all list, > i.e. no one. > > So the issue is, is it worth enhancing bounce processing so that when a > bounce is returned for a non-member of list X, we look at list X's > regular_include_lists and score the bounce for any of those lists of > which the bouncing address is a member? > > Thoughts anyone? > > It seems that in the situation above where there are (I think) two > active lists that get their own posts, there would be enough regular > bounces so that ignoring the additional bounces from the all list > wouldn't be a problem, but there may be other situations where a list > is used as an alternative umbrella where almost all the posts would be > to the 'umbrella' and this would be a problem. > > I added a note about this to the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/TIA9>.
I would like to see the bounce processing enhanced to handle this situation. If I remember correctly I think I saw where version 3 will be able to have it set to handle bounces on a global basis instead of per list? If that is the case, it will be taken care of in version 3. I am not sure what the timetable is for version 3, but it might be worth just waiting. But, I would love to see it in version 2 if it is not that big of a change. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
