[Box-Admins] Dead mailing list subscriber processing policy

[Marcus Denker]

Hi,

Normally in mailman, bounces go to "listname-bounces", and after  
three or so bounces,
the account is automatically disabled.

On 27.11.2006, at 22:30, Ken Causey wrote:

> For some time now the standard backlog of qmail requests on the server
> has been increasing (it seems to average 2500-3000 or so currently)  
> and
> I suspect that at least some portion of this is related to mailing  
> list
> subscribers whose addresses no longer work.  For some time now most
> mailing list notices have been going to this mailing list (I've never
> yet figured out why) and I've simply been deleting them from the
> moderation queue rather than have everyone flooded by them.  But  
> really
> the ones that are due to dead subscribers should be handled at some
> point.  I'm really not sure who or how this has been processed in the
> past and I'm wondering if anyone knows or has an opinion on a  
> policy for
> this.
>
> For example do I drop someone on the first bounce that seems to  
> indicate
> something that won't be quickly fixed?  Do I wait for response X or
> period of time Y?  What about weeks and weeks of transient problems  
> like
> full mailbox?  I think you get the idea.
>
> Of course I also cannot handle these myself (for the most part)  
> since I
> handed off overall mailing list admin duties to Marcus.  So somehow he
> and I will need to work out an interface for this.
>
> Ken