Re: Fwd: Re: [Evolution] List Working?

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley home com>]

If that's the case, it would be nice if Mailman could e-mail the
original sender to let them know the e-mail bounced.  I sure don't
remember getting any indication whatsoever that this happened.  But I
suppose that could explain what happened in both of our cases.  It sure
wasn't obvious from my standpoint though.  It took me a couple of days
to realize what was going on.

Dan

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 21:27, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> This is somewhat OT, but I will answer to hopefully clear up any
> questsion other people may have...
>
> If your e-mail bounces for any reason, delivery is automatically
> disabled and a warning is sent to the list admin to let him or her know
> that your account was disabled due to error(s).  This is a feature of
> the Mailman mailing list software (see www.list.org) which is designed
> to prevent the adminstrator from being swamped with bounce messages,
> prevent alias loops, and prevent bounce messages from getting back to
> the list.  I have been on some mailing lists, run on servers other than
> mailman, where tons of bounces or alias loops got back to the lists,
> which was extremely annoying.  Although this disable feature is not an
> ideal solution and sometimes causes confusion, I think it's better than
> the potential results of not having it.
>
> Dan Hensley wrote:
> > About a month or two ago this happened to me twice within about 4 days.
> > I e-mailed the list about it but I don't remember getting any
> > responses.  So there is definitely a problem with the list software, but
> > it's pretty sporadic.
> >
> > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:54, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > > > It turns out that somehow my subscription got set to
> > > > "turn delivery
> > > > off". I'm pretty sure I didn't set it since today
> > > > was the first day I
> > > > learned such an option existed but somehow it got
> > > > set. Anyway, I fixed
> > > > it and I expect everthing to return to normal now.
>
> -- 
> "Jonathan F. Dill" (dill umbi umd edu)