<snip> > I would run through the logs to find all the domains that are timing out on > dns, then mark the recipients on those domains as "no mail". After that, see > how delivery goes for the rest of them. Besides, why keep users on the list > than don't exist or actually get delivery?
Shouldn't mailman (or any good mailing list server) be automatically removing bouncing addresses? I can see that if the old mailing lists weren't that advanced that you could have 20 years of buildup of bad addresses, but shouldn't mailman have unsubscribed these addresses after 6 months of bouncing? I know on the several mailing lists I administer that bad addresses get auto-unsubscribed. And, if there are that many bad/bouncing addresses on the list in question, how many honeypots are out there flagging this sender as a bad sender and harming the listserv, or possibly the whole domain or IP as being a problem sender? > Oh, and -nothing- involved in email handling is "real time", which has a > fairly specific meaning in computing. *All* email is queued at least a > couple of times along the way and delivered as those systems get around to > it. Often that's within seconds, but not always. I'm on some lists with 100s > of users, and it's not uncommon for a message to take an hour to get to > everyone. Definitely. It is important for people who are using email at all professionally to understand that email delivery is *NOT* instantaneous despite appearances. And that email delivery regularly takes a few minutes to an hour, but can, under absolutely normal circumstances, take 3 or 4 days. And that the US Government has legislation that defines normal email delivery to be within 30 days (yes, a whole month)... -- ---- from my mac to yours... Keith Seyffarth mailto:w...@weif.net http://www.weif.net/ - Home of the First Tank Guide! http://www.rpgcalendar.net/ - the Montana Role-Playing Calendar ---- http://www.miscon.org/ - Montana's Longest Running Science Fiction Convention ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://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: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
