Re: mailman and saving bounces

[Bob Proulx]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Unfortunatley Mailman does not store the rejection messages 
> 
> Yeah. What I did to ameliorate this on tug.org is to set up an alias,
> say "bounces" (could be anything), which just goes to a file:
> bounces:        /home/tug/mail/bounces/current
> 
> Then I added bounces to all the *-bounces mailman addresses, like
> texhax-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces texhax",bounces
> 
> The bounces file then at least gets some record of what the mailman
> bounce processing is seeing. It's not ideal, in that what gets saved has
> "Message body suppressed". Sometimes it is possible to find the original
> in the regular mailman archive, but sometimes it is mailman-generated
> mail to the list owners, which is hard/impossible to track down.
> 
> But it's all I could think of to do, short of hacking the mm
> sources. --best, karl.

I don't know enough to know what I don't know but I wanted to say that
if the above gets us some trail of what is bouncing then that would
definitely be useful.

Unrelated to anything GNU by happenstance I am setting up a new
Mailman installation elsewhere.  That will kick me to get some
personal experience with parts that I haven't had dealings with
before.

Bob