Re: address deactivation

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From Charles Williams Aug 27, 2009 12:00 AM

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Jeff,

I'll give option 1 a try with Exim and see how it goes.

thanks,
chuck


Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> Unfortunately, not at the moment.  Whoever is sending those vacation
> messages is not respecting Precedence: list, but welcome to the world
> of internet mail...
> 
> Some possible solutions to this:
> 
>  * If you are fronting SubEtha with Postfix or some other such MTA,
> filter out bounce messages there.  They all have the format of
> listname-verp-XXXX-b@listhost.com.
> 
>  * Create a SubEtha mail filter that adds the header "Auto-Submitted:
> auto-generated".  This should stop the autoresponders, but might not.
> If you need help with the filter, I can write it up for you in a few
> mins.
> 
>  * We could add some sort of global systemwide ability to disable (or
> moderate) the bounce handling behavior.  Perhaps a setting that
> controls the threshold so you can set it arbitrarily large (right now,
> 7 more bounces than deliveries will disable delivery).
> 
>  * I could add a per-list configuration option.  One possibility is to
> make this a database field with a checkbox (or a numeric threshold) on
> the list settings.  Another is to extend the filter mechanism to
> bounce messages so you could apply an "ignore bounce messages" filter.
>  Or maybe invert the case so you have to add a "disable delivery after
> bounces" with an N parameter.  I like the filter idea better than the
> checkbox idea.
> 
> What would you like?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Charles
> Williams<c.williams@planet-ic.de> wrote:
> hey all,
> 
> have noticed that certain mail addresses are being automatically disabled in lists when subetha
> recieves a bounce or reply from the address. is there a way to disable this behaviour? vacation
> response mails are deactivating addresses in a list with thousands of subscribers and the admin has
> to go through and reactivate these addresses once he gets a mail bitching that the subscriber is no
> longer getting mails from the lists.
> 
> thanks,
> chuck
> 
> 
> 
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