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[Phil Schwarz]
> How about a feature that would instruct Listserv to simply swallow
> bounces containing a certain string, such as "transient failure", or
> containing the address of a particularly verbose mail server that
> complains a lot about transient delivery outages with do-nothing
> messages?
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> Is that too costly a performance hit to justify?
That's what Full-Auto does right now ... if it understands the message, and
it's temporary, it simply eats it without taking any action at all. It's a
big performance hit if you let the error-causing addresses build up -- some
addresses with "temporary" errors can stay that way for months, so unless
you have some way to remove the addresses your server can end up doing
little but processing bounces. One way to handle the situation is to set a
short Renewal time on your list, so that sooner or later (sooner, that is)
the failing address will also fail to confirm its subscription, and the
problem there will end.
However, that said, it sounds like there is a new, improved bounce
processing algorithm in 1.8c. If your site doesn't use Sendmail you'll get
to take advantage of it :-(
Norm
--
"But doesn't it kill romance?" you say.
And I say,
"What doesn't?" [Jane Wagner]
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