Re: bounce / bounce-remind not working properly

Ed Kasky <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:51:59 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.majordomo.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 10:18 PM Tuesday, 9/2/2008, Joe R. Jah wrote -=>
>On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Ed Kasky wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:24:17 -0700
> > From: Ed Kasky <[email protected]>
> > To: Joe R. Jah <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: bounce / bounce-remind not working properly
> >
> > At 08:28 PM Tuesday, 9/2/2008, Joe R. Jah wrote -=>
> > > 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.
> >
> > That's the problem...
> >
> > A command of "bounce this-list 
> [email protected]" will mail the following message
> > to [email protected]:
> >    approve passwd1 unsubscribe this-list [email protected]
> >    approve passwd3 subscribe bounces [email protected] (930401 this-list)
> >
> > This part works fine.  However, the bounces 
> list is not getting populated with
> > the date and list in ()'s as in your example above.  It is only getting
> > populated with the email address.
>
>Set not to strip addresses in bounces.config:
>
>strip               =   no

Et VoilĂ !

After all this time, that is one setting I didn't know existed.

Thanks!

Ed

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