[Box-Admins] Dead mailing list subscriber processing policy

[Ken Causey]

Interesting information, thanks.  I will just pay more attention to the
details of the notices received for now then.

Ken

P.S. Do you know much about qmail?

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 20:47 +0100, Marcus Denker wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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