BLU lists - mailman queue test

[John Abreau]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 11:13, 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 set aside a large backlog of queued messages in the mailman directory 
last night, and mail started working again immediately afterward. I 
haven't examined it yet, but I expect that when I do I'll discover it's 
mostly spam. The mailbox I set up to collect postings to discuss before 
they hit the list has collected more spam than legitimate messages. 

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