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- From: ned@sigurd.innosoft.com (Ned Freed)
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- Subject: RE: 2 questions
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 23:49:22 GMT
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- > 1) This may be a FAQ, but an exuser must be subscribed to a dozen mailing
- > lists, and now that he is gone, his mail is bouncing. As postmaster, I receive
- > these, too. What is the best way to deep-six mail addressed to this guy?
-
- The best way to do it is to contact all the lists and unsubscribe the sucker.
- The problem with the deep-six approach is that the mail continues to arrive and
- will do so forever. This can eventually become a real issue if you get enough
- of this sort of traffic.
-
- However, you can easily deep-six mail in PMDF if you like -- set up a bitbucket
- channel and forward this guys mail to the a doman name that maps to this
- channel. (The username you forward to is, of course, not relevant.)
-
- > 2) Any suggestions for meaningful interval values for a) return.com, which
- > runs every midnight, and b) the messages that are sent at 3,6,9, and 12
- > days. A user complained because he didn't get notified for 3 days that
- > his mail was not delivered. Somebody suggested running return.com every
- > 4 hours or so, and having the first message sent at one day. Any
- > comments on that suggestion or on notification of nondelivery in general?
-
- This is totally a matter of taste. We have sites that return mail after a week
- and say nothing in the interim. Other sites want it returned after one hour in
- the queue. To each his (or her) own.
-
- You can run RETURN either daily or hourly. It does not support any other modes
- of operation. (The RETURN_UNITS PMDF option controls this.) My recommendation
- is that you leave RETURN_UNITS alone and set up a return policy so that
- warnings are sent after one day. This is the most reasonable choice, in my
- opinion. But like I say: to each his (or her) own.
-
- Ned
-