Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Automatic Maintenance: Error Mail

Bounce Handling

This option sets whether permanent failures are handled in memory, which may be faster, or if they are saved in the incoming mail database, and processed there.

When a message mailing is sent out to its recipients, some of the recipients will bounce back a message saying they could not receive the message. ListManager automatically tracks these messages, and determines when an email address has become invalid.

ListManager can keep track of these permanent failures in memory, as they occur. The downside to this approach is that the bounces will not appear in Utilities: Mail Queues: Incoming. On the other hand, this is a faster and more efficient way to process these messages.

However, if you want to be able to view the permanent failures that ListManager received by looking at the "incoming mail" web page of the web interface, you should disable this feature.

Auto-Hold Users

This option allows you to disable auto-hold for every list on your server. You might want to do this if your server is having network connectivity problems. To disable auto-hold on a specific list, see Utilities: List Settings: Automatic Maintenance: Error Mail.

Disable From: Checking

This allows you to disable the built-in phrases ListManager normally uses when receiving mail. ListManager uses some regular expressions to block common types of spam, and disabling the From: checking will bypass using those regular expressions on the From: field.

For example, a message from postmaster@somedomain would normally be blocked, because postmaster@ is an automated address that usually sends delivery errors. However, a real person might use their postmaster@ account to belong a ListManager list and you might want to allow this.

Disable Subject: Checking

This allows you to disable the built-in phrases ListManager normally uses when receiving mail. ListManager uses some regular expressions to block common types of spam and disabling the Subject: checking will bypass using those regular expressions on the Subject: field.

A good example of a common Subject: expression that ListManager normally blocks is "out of the office". Messages with that subject are typically auto-responder members, which inform people that they will not be able to answer their email in a timely manner. Blocking messages of that type prevents useless messages from going out to the list.

Disable First Line Checking

This allows you to disable the built-in phrases ListManager normally uses when receiving mail. ListManager uses some regular expressions to block common types of spam, and disabling the checking of the first line will bypass using those regular expressions on the first line of the message.

For example, a sentence starting with "please remove" would normally be blocked, because it looks like an unsubscribe request sent to the list.

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