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BLU lists - mailman queue test



On Friday 28 May 2004 11:13 am, matt galster wrote:
> I don't know what the settings & inner workings in mailman are, but if an
> address fails enough times, it is automajically set no mail, or removed
> from the list (I have WIND set to remove, that option is set by the list
> admin). I typically get a dozen or so notices a week that mailman has
> removed a bad address.  Sometimes they are full mailboxes.  Sometimes they
> are (now) dead accounts which had been good.  Sometimes they are
> fat-fingerings by Fred. Sometimes the new accounts don't give their
> addresses properly, as well, I suspect.
>
> In any case, I don't expect there are more than a dozen bad addresses in
> there which are not set to no mail.  Those set to no mail could be worse.
> Not sure how mailman handles those guys!

I was talking about the mail server level, not the mailing list level,

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