[Mailman-Users] does mailman ever automatically delete an expired email address?
Hello Does mailman ever delete members from lists automatically for any reason? One of the owners of one of our lists (only 1 list seems to have been affected) recently reported that he had lost 100 users from his list. They were removed, not just marked as nomail. A primary look at some of the names lost. show that the addresses were no longer valid email addresses. The addresses would have expired about 6-8 months ago. The message he got as he was the owner, one message per address was: - Forwarded message from mailman-boun...@lists.bates.edu - Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:00:05 -0500 From: mailman-boun...@lists.bates.edu Reply-To: mailman-boun...@lists.bates.edu Subject: batesbuild unsubscribe notification To: batesbuild-ow...@lists.bates.edu usern...@bates.edu has been removed from batesbuild. Thank you. Jane -- Jane Frizzell Network Services Administrator Bates College Information and Library Services jfriz...@bates.edu 786-6457110 Russell St -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] does mailman ever automatically delete an expired email address?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jane Frizzell wrote: Hello Does mailman ever delete members from lists automatically for any reason? One of the owners of one of our lists (only 1 list seems to have been affected) recently reported that he had lost 100 users from his list. They were removed, not just marked as nomail. A primary look at some of the names lost. show that the addresses were no longer valid email addresses. Yes, Mailman's bounce processing will do so. The specifics as to how many bounces and how long to wait before removing the user can be set by the list administrator. I believe bounce processing is on by default. This is, in general, a good thing as excessive sending to dead addresses is a good way to get yourself on some of the anti-spam blacklists. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- 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
