On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:24:25 -0500, Barry Finkel <bsfin...@anl.gov> wrote: > On 03/15/11 09:57, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> Due to some long time configuration issues, which have now been >> resolved, I think was missing some list events. Now I have to play >> catchup. I am not sure how bounce processing works. Lets assume that a >> list member's email address goes bad. Exactly what happens to the >> bounced message and how does the list owner get notified? Assuming the >> owner missed those notifications, how can (s)he tell which users have >> invalid addresses? Thanks. >> > > The bounce score begins at 0.0. > Each bounce (only one per day is counted) increases the score by > 1.0 or 0.5 depending upon if the -bounces processing detects a > soft error or hard error. Once the bounce score reaches 5.0, > the subscription is set to NOMAIL, and for three successive > weeks, once per week, a test mail is sent to the address asking > the subscriber to re-confirm. If there is no response to these > three mailings, then the address is unsubscribed. All of these > parameters are configurable. The bounced mail that triggers > the 5.0 score is sent to the list owners, the previous bounce > messages are discarded. The unsubscribe notice is sent to the > list owners. > > I run a report daily > > http://veenet.value.net/~msapiro/scripts/get_bounce_info.py > > that tells me for each Mailman list, each subscriber that has a > bounce score greater than zero. I review the report daily to > spot bad addresses. > > Look at the Mailman logs > > /var/log/mailman/bounce > > and maybe other logs in that directory.
Are you sure about the 1.0 and 0.5 score based on soft and hard failure? I think Mark has said previously that a soft and hard bounce both get scored as 1.0. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
