bounce-probe text being sent to non-owners

bounce-probe text being sent to non-owners

[Helge Milde]

Hi.
I'm using mlmmj to run a newsletter to 500ish destinations, and 
everything has been working great so far, except one odd problem; the 
message contained in text/bounce-probe is sometimes (well.. once) sent 
to arbitrary subscribers (non-owners).
I'm sure this has to do with me not configuring it properly, but anyone 
know what could cause this?
In my controls/owner file I have one line containing 'info@xxxx.org'.

One thing to note could be that I added the subscribers manually by 
pasting into the subscribers.d/ directory.

This is the message (with emails censored out). The To-field contains 
the non-owner's email-address.

From:xxxxxx+owner@xxxxxx.net
> Date: 3 July 2008 11:00:05 BDT
> To: xxxxx@xxxx.uk
> Subject: Messages from listxxxx@xxxxx.net to you have been
> bouncing
>
> Hi, this is the mlmmj program managing the mailinglist
>
> xxxxx@xxxxx.net
>
> Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this
> message it means things are back to normal, and it's merely for your
> information.
>
> Here is the list of the bounced messages:
>
>         19
>


-- 
Helge Milde

Re: bounce-probe text being sent to non-owners

[Christian Laursen]

Helge Milde <helge@monsternett.no> writes:

> I'm using mlmmj to run a newsletter to 500ish destinations, and
> everything has been working great so far, except one odd problem; the
> message contained in text/bounce-probe is sometimes (well.. once) sent
> to arbitrary subscribers (non-owners).

That is expected behaviour. It happens when mail to the subscriber
bounces back and mlmmj needs to determine if it is a permanent problem
or just temporary.

If the bounce probe mail doesn't bounce, the subscriber will keep
being subscribed. Otherwise bounce probes will be sent until no nounce
is received back or the time spcified by the "bouncelife" tunable has
elapsed. In the latter case the address in question will be
unsubscribed from the list.

Proper bounce handling is an essential part of any modern mailing list
manager. :)

-- 
Christian Laursen