From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schmidt Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:37:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] Allowing empty enevelope senders Message-Id: <53C06730.6040301@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <3154844.GYFGS8R0Q3@storm> In-Reply-To: <3154844.GYFGS8R0Q3@storm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On 11/07/14 5:40 PM, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > On Friday, 11. July 2014 06:55:39 Ben Schmidt wrote: >>> the problem here is a bit more complex: The mlmmj managed mailinglist >>> gets the replies from a separate newsletter that is not managed by >>> mlmmj. >>> So the return path of that newsletter is set to an address >>> that is managed by mlmmj :) >>> >>> Would you be ok with if I develop a patch to make >>> the "discard of empty envelope address" configurable? >>> Default is to keep the current behavior. >> >> I'm not convinced yet. Why would you want these bounce messages >> delivered to the mailing list? It seems to me that such a feature is >> just asking for trouble on the whole. > > the list is read by a bunch of poor human souls that have to unsubscribe > the bounced recipients manually from the newsletter system. > > But as this is asking probably for more trouble, we've now > moved the recipients of the mlmmj list to a pure postfix based "list". > That seems to do the job. That seems like the right solution to me. It seems unlikely to me you need a full-featured MLM in this scenario, as you shouldn't need automatic bounce handling, subscription management, archives, etc. for your 'bunch of poor human souls'. Cheers, Ben.