On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:37:29PM -0400, Sam wrote:
> That does bring up an interesting point. An RFC-compliant DSN will go to
> the envelope sender address, and I'm not sure if ezmlm is smart enough to
> identify delayed DSNs. If it doesn't, it'll look like a bounce to it, and
> eventually it will kick you off the list. I'm sure that many will
> disagree, but in this case I believe that this would be an ezmlm bug.
Spot on. Some months ago my workstation was down for 8 hours - and ezmlm
managing this list logged the generated "warning: cannot deliver for 4
hours" messages as bounces - it bumped me into djb's "possibly badaddress
list" and some weeks later I got a monitoring message from ezmlm checking to
see that I still existed (an Email-ping :-). I was surprised that ezmlm
considered a 4-hour warning to be a bounce... I mentioned it to Dan and he
didn't think it was a problem. As it doesn't actually drop you from the list
after a warning-bounce, it's probably not a bug - but a feature ;-)
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Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
