Re: bounce / bounce-remind not working properly

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Ed Kasky wrote:

> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:41:50 -0700
> From: Ed Kasky <[email protected]>
> To: Joe R. Jah <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: bounce / bounce-remind not working properly
>
> At 10:40 PM Monday, 9/1/2008, Joe R. Jah wrote -=>
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Ed Kasky wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:48:26 -0700
> > > From: Ed Kasky <[email protected]>
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: bounce / bounce-remind not working properly
> > >
> > > I just realized that the bounce / bounce-remind scripts are not doing
> > > everything they should be doing.  The message from bounce-remind says:
> > >
> > > "The comment for each address shows the date it was moved,
> > > and the first list it was removed from."
> > >
> > > However it does not contain the list or the date, just the email address that
> > > was moved to the bounces list.
> > >
> > > Majordomo 1.94.5
> > > bounce is Revision: 1.11, 2000/01/07 14:09:24 patched with bounce.2
> > > bounce-remind is Revision: 1.9, 1996/12/09 16:49:46
> > >
> > > Where is it supposed to keep that information?
> > >
> > > Ed
> >
> > http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/FAQ.html#3.2
>
>
> That much I get.  It's the following in the faq and the instructions that is
> not happening:
>
> "The majordomo maintainer then runs (out of cron) the 'bounce-remind' script
> periodically, which sends mail to all the people on the bounces list, saying
> essentially "you were removed from list 'foo' because mail to you bounced. To
> subscribe yourself back to the list, send the following commands ...". There's
> no facility yet for trimming the bounces list, but it's easy to write one
> because the date the person was added to the bounces list is included"
>
> The date is included in the email from 'bounce' but not 'bounce-remind' to the
> user.
>
> Should the date be included somewhere in the bounces list?

Yes it should, but you and/or your list owners must first run the bounce
command to populate the bounces list in the right format:

[email protected] (20080822 somelist)
[email protected] (20080818 someotherlist)
...

The bounce-remind only lists what is in the bounces list.

Regards,

Joe
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