I am really trying to reply to Barry but, as a note to the admins, Barry's message did not make it to me for some reason. If it weren't for the replies I would not have seen this.
Thanks Barry. P.S. I tried to go to the veenet link but it keeps timing out. On 3/15/2011 4:41 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote: > 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/dap1%40bellsouth.net > >
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