Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Chuq" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chuq> my current thought on that is: Chuq> http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/001447.html My now-ancient thought on this is http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/Attitude/ Warning, it swears like a bounce. Chuq>

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-05 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Paul Tomblin wrote: > I tried asking this on mailman-users, and got totally ignored both times I > asked. Here is my problem: One of my mailing list users has an ISP that > refuses email for hours at a time, and the ISP that they get their email > through, panix.com, sends a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which ties back to the original problem. Those "warning" > not-really-bounces are anachronisms of the days when all this was tied > to UUCP. Basically, they should die. the only way you convince sites It doesn't really matter *why*, by god. The fact

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
handlers, I asked for help with modifying one of them, and everybody treats me like I'm asking for how to draw a moustache on the Mona Lisa. The code is already a nest of special cases. It won't hurt the pristine nature of the perfect code to add a small check and NOT mishandle one thing that is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 4 May 2004 10:48:16 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 4, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which ties back to the original problem. Those "warning" > not-really-bounces are anachronisms of the days when all this was tied > to UUCP. Good point. >

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:42, Paul Tomblin wrote: > The code is already a nest of special cases. It won't hurt the pristine > nature of the perfect code to add a small check and NOT mishandle one > thing that is erroneously treated as a bounce. Especially since it > appears that somebody already

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:48, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > And the only way to make THEM fix their damned systems to not bounce > stuff that shouldn't bounce is to make it a visible problem to them. > You don't do that by "fixing" mailman. Unfortunately, it'll cause some > pain for users, but my fe

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:56, Brad Knowles wrote: > I think JC was talking about the broader subject, more than just > the standard DSNs. > > I agree with you that we could do a better job of parsing and > handling the standard DSNs, but I agree with JC that this is a very > tough t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:28, Brad Knowles wrote: > > Mailman cannot parse every form of error message - in that direction > > lies madness. Does it need to be polyglot as well? > > No, but we could make an attempt to better handle the standard > format messages, as described by the RFCs

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 05:06, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > They should not do this if the mail is marked as "low priority" - ie > Precedence set to values like "list" or "junk" Absolutely right. And you can hack Mailman all you like to try to recognize these warnings, but in the long run I don't t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I haven't looked at the latest handlers, but my code says something like: if > the person hasn't bounced in two days (of messages each day), then reset > their counter. So if they constantly generate these messages, there is a > very real pro

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On May 4, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If their ISP is broken enough that it generates bounce messages, then their unsubscription problem isn't mine. it's not always easy to convince their users of that. Which ties back to the original problem. Those "warning" not-really-bou

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
D] Sent: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:08:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me > Quoting Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > And how many "RFC-Standard" DSNs are out there, compared to non- standard? > > He's right, it is not the leas

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Carson Gaspar
[ I am on the list, guys - no need to CC me... ] --On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:40:27 -0400 J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's true only while you maintain the "RFC-standard DSNs" qualifier. Very few of the DSNs my lists receive are RFC-conformant. So if they aren't compliant, we trea

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 04 May 2004 11:40:49 -0400 Carson Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:25 AM -0400 J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Reliably distinguishing is non-trivial. > Incorrect. Parsing RFC-standard DSNs is trivial. I wrote the code to > do it back in the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > And how many "RFC-Standard" DSNs are out there, compared to non-standard? > He's right, it is not the least bit trivial. The point is that Mailman already has code to parse dozens of different bounce messages. I don't see why everybody is get

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:40 AM -0400 2004/05/04, Carson Gaspar quoted JC Lawrence: Reliably distinguishing is non-trivial. Incorrect. Parsing RFC-standard DSNs is trivial. I wrote the code to do it back in the old days when I ran the firewalls mailing list. I think JC was talking about the broader subject, more

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And how many "RFC-Standard" DSNs are out there, compared to non-standard? He's right, it is not the least bit trivial. Bob Carson Gaspar wrote: --On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:25 AM -0400 J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2004 07:03:26 -0400 Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Carson Gaspar
--On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:25 AM -0400 J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2004 07:03:26 -0400 Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do have some control over the MTA. But it does seem a little ridiculous to filter out warnings (but not errors) just because mailman ins

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:20 PM +0100 2004/05/04, Nigel Metheringham wrote: The ISP is sending bounces. The fact that the text in the message says these are warning messages rather than bounces does not change the fact that the messages are bounces. Technically, they are not "bounces". They are Delivery Status

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 4 May 2004 07:03:26 -0400 Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do have some control over the MTA. But it does seem a little > ridiculous to filter out warnings (but not errors) just because > mailman insists on treating warnings as errors. Reliably distinguishing is non-trivial.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Nigel Metheringham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mailman cannot parse every form of error message - in that direction > lies madness. Does it need to be polyglot as well? By the way, I notice that Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleWarning seems to be where the standard Sendmail 4 hour warning is handled, b

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Nigel Metheringham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:03, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > I do have some control over the MTA. But it does seem a little ridiculous > > to filter out warnings (but not errors) just because mailman insists on > > treating warnings as errors. > > The ISP

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:03, Paul Tomblin wrote: > I do have some control over the MTA. But it does seem a little ridiculous > to filter out warnings (but not errors) just because mailman insists on > treating warnings as errors. The ISP is sending bounces. The fact that the text in the message

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 10:06 AM +0100 2004/05/04, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > They should not do this if the mail is marked as "low priority" - ie > > Precedence set to values like "list" or "junk". It could be worth > > talking to panix about this. > > I believe t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:06 AM +0100 2004/05/04, Nigel Metheringham wrote: They should not do this if the mail is marked as "low priority" - ie Precedence set to values like "list" or "junk". It could be worth talking to panix about this. I believe that I had seen and responded to his previous posting on mailm

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 03:13, Paul Tomblin wrote: > I tried asking this on mailman-users, and got totally ignored both times I > asked. Here is my problem: One of my mailing list users has an ISP that > refuses email for hours at a time, and the ISP that they get their email > through, panix.com,

[Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me

2004-05-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
I tried asking this on mailman-users, and got totally ignored both times I asked. Here is my problem: One of my mailing list users has an ISP that refuses email for hours at a time, and the ISP that they get their email through, panix.com, sends a warning if it's undelivered for four hours. Probl