Hello everyone,

I've been working on the Bounce Handler some more To refresh what has been happening, here was some of my original plans:

http://dadamailproject
com/cgi-bin/dada/mail
cgi/archive/dadadev/20111019010503/

The, "Scorecard on the main screen (of the bounce handler)", "better bounce rules and algorithms", and "per-list scorecard prefs" features have been made in the last major ver of Dada Mail (as well as the "decay rate" feature)", I'm now moving onto this:

Going one step further, I'd like to also have a new option available (again, per-list): instead of an outright deletion of the subscriber from the mailing list, perhaps instead the address is moved to a, "currently bouncing" sublist, so that the list owner can more easily look over the addresses (and the history of the bounced messages per address) and perhaps see why the messages are bouncing From there, the list owner can make a choice of:

• removing the address once and for all,
• sending a, "Hey, you're bouncing! Are you really there? Confirm that you're still there and resubscribe!"
• allowing a list owner to just simply re-subscribe an address and remove them from the "currently bouncing" sublist
• or, well, nothing

I've implemented partly points #1 and #3, not sure if I'm really going to implement point #2 at all and point #4 is is easy enough to create

Along with this feature is a feature to easily lookup why an address is bouncing, so you can make a wise decision on what to do about the address The main problem is that sometimes, addresses bounce because a mailing list's sending is compromised by a broken mail server, or being subjected to black listing - there's really no reason to lose a chunk of your mailing list, just because of a temporary problem,

The work is being done at:

https://github
com/justingit/dada-mail/tree/features-bounce_handler_sublist

If you'd like to follow along,