According to Nate Williams:
How do you cause 'vacation' to not send messages to the list? Doesn't
the stock 'vacation' program as shipped in FreeBSD send them to the
list?
It is supposed to notice that the mail has a Precedence: header and not send
any vacation notice to any mail with one.
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:46:15PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
Someday, when you have 5 minutes free (aha!) have a look at Listar. It
is a small, fast and feature-full list manager written in C with
automatic bounce handling (among other things).
Hmm, it sends mails itself. I doubt it can
listar.orgi'll take a look.
thanks for the pointer.
jmb
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Brad Knowles wrote:
At 10:11 PM +0200 1999/10/12, Andre Oppermann wrote:
They must be crazy to run a several million recipients
mailing list with sendmail...
You don't know all the hacks that they made to sendmail to make
it perform at previously unheard of
Ben,
Majordomo has this facility, sending periodic reminder
messages; it is the bounces mailing list . I used it for a couple
months. The results were less than satisfactory. Most people stayed
on the bounces mailing list indefinately. ;(
jmb
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At 4:19 PM +0200 1999/10/13, Andre Oppermann wrote:
That is something qmail has done since the beginning.
With respect to qmail, I have no knowledge of that. I do know
that this feature was available in the first public beta of Postfix.
It was introduced early in the "alpha" stage
thanks for the note on bouncefilter.
i'll take a look at it.
may be just what i am looking for..
may be better than what i am using already.
always interested in somethatngthat will help me
do this better.
jmb
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"Jason K. Fritcher" wrote:
I must say that Jonathan has been more than fair. About a year, maybe a year
and a half ago, I didn't have a dedicated connection, and was doing smtp on
demand, with my ISP spooling mail for me when I wasn't online. On average, I
would get approximate, 20-30
"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs the
Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
thanks for the note on bouncefilter.
i'll take a look at it.
may be just what i am looking for..
may be better than what i am using already.
always interested in somethatngthat will help me
do this better.
That is what I was talking about. With ezmlm there is
At 9:23 PM +0200 1999/10/12, Andre Oppermann wrote:
I know some guys with list's in the three digit k to one digit M range
which don't have to deal with bounces at any time. I know it's hard
to believe but it's true and I can provide you with names where one
can ask for confirmation.
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 9:23 PM +0200 1999/10/12, Andre Oppermann wrote:
I know some guys with list's in the three digit k to one digit M range
which don't have to deal with bounces at any time. I know it's hard
to believe but it's true and I can provide you with names where one
can
Ben Smithurst wrote...
Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
i do NOT send the person mail to inform them that the are
being removed from the mailing lists, because their email is bouncing.
How about sending a message to them once every 24 hours for, say,
a week? I imagine some of those
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care that much.
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care that
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care that
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nate Williams)
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs
"Accidental" removals from the lists are so common that I give up. I no
longer even try to get back on them -- it's been happening for _years_ now,
and I have made multiple complaints about it, and if it's not a problem for
whoever runs the mailing lists, then I just don't care
I know that this is not the place to hype one's own wares, but if your
lists have fewer than 200 people, why not just use the free version of
lyris. One of its many features is sophisticated bounce handling.
-Kip
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Sean Eric Fagan
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:21:52AM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you
write:
only one comment. i remove people from the lists whenever
their email bounces. the threshhold is approximately 30 messages in a
24 hour period. mail may bounce due to DNS
Sean,
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Five years of people finding themselves mysteriously removed from lists, with
no response other than, "Oh, I just remove people automatically without
warning if I get too many bounces, and, no, I don't have any bounces from you
but that must have been what happened."
some people
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Whatever method he is using is not working very well, and it has not worked
very well for a very long time.
I must say that Jonathan has been more than fair. About a year, maybe a year
and a half ago, I didn't
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
when the MTA gives up trying to deliver the mail, i call it
bounced. so a 500 series error from the other MTA means the email has
bounced.
Have you considered using bouncefilter for this? I'm using it for the
PostgreSQL mailnig
[Mayhaps too many Cc:'s kept in order to reach relevant audience]
Thanks, sorry about the X-posting...
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:57:55PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
I Can't believe this email only produced TWO responses!
I would have thought that this wouldhav brought out the
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