Re: Google Gmail mailing list bounces

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:39 PM Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>   The maximum member bounce score before the member's subscription is
> >>   disabled. This value can be a floating point number.
> >>   (Details for bounce_score_threshold) 5.0
>
> 5 bounced messages at a rate of one per day, not 5 bounces total, no?
>
>   increment by 0.5.  We only increment the bounce score once per day, so
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   even if we receive ten hard bounces from a member per day, their score
>   will increase by only 1 for that day.

I am on Gmail and I have received a suspension notification today. I
can attest that I have *not* experienced a contiguous 5-day interval
without any new messages in help-gnu-emacs or emacs-devel.

This might mean *some* of the list messages bounce, and that is enough
to push my score over the threshold. Unfortunately I do not know how
to get details on which messages bounced and what the server said.