Re: [Savannah-help-public] gnu.org's mailman removes subscribers from the lists!

[Sylvain Beucler]

[CC list clean-up, feel free to add people back if they are truly
interested]

Hi,

Can you work something out with Mailman's "Bounce processing" options,
or do you need something else?

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 05:32:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> Dear FreeTypers and groffers!
> Dear Savannah hackers!
> 
> 
> >From time to time it happens that gnu.org (and nongnu.org) gets
> `blacklisted', which means that a bunch of servers no longer accept
> email from the gnu.org mailing lists.  It takes some time until this
> action has been reverted.  The normal consequence is that mailman
> unsubscribes all addresses which cause bouncing due to blacklisting.
> 
> In the rejected emails I see something like this:
> 
>   550 mail not accepted from blacklisted IP address [199.232.76.165]
> 
> As an immediate reaction I strongly suggest that you control your
> subscription status regularly to see whether you are still subscribed.
> 
> I wonder whether it is possible to configure mailman so that mails
> rejected this way doesn't cause unsubscription -- at least the time
> limit should be increased considerably.