Re: How do I stop receiving Bounce-Detected mails? - Mailing list pgsql-www

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.

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