Re: How do I stop receiving Bounce-Detected mails?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How do I stop receiving Bounce-Detected mails?
Date: 2010-02-03 02:11:53
Message-ID: 20100203021153.GM4020@alvh.no-ip.org
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 2/2/10 5:25 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> >> As a moderator, I recieve 100's of "Bounce Detected from ..." e-mails
> >> per day. Is there some way to turn these off? They're useless, but so
> >> voluminous I've stopped doing other moderation.
> >
> > Not that I'm aware of, just put a filter in place to dump them to
> > /dev/null?
>
> That's ridiculous. No wonder we can't find moderators.

Only list owners get these messages, not moderators.

What you should do with them is something like

- save them to a separate folder
- regularly check for bounces that are not being handled by the
automatic bounce processor
- delete everything else

This helps keep the list of invalid addresses subscribed short.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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