I'm beginning to suspect that its bounce detection is no longer working reliably (the bit that goes "unsubscribe someone after mail to them has bounced N times"), but it's such an obfuscated line-noise piece of shit that... I don't even.
It's written in a combination of Procmail and sh, you see. Yeah. That's a thing. Or was, in the early 90s, when this thing was last actively maintained.
But my experience is that Mailman is even worse.
Do I still really have no choice other than "hire a spammer"?
This is for the DNA Lounge weekly mailing. That's the only mailing list I have left. But it is still a thing that must exist.
Features I want:
- Handles mail with "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject or body.
- Sends a confirmation message to validate the address before adding it.
- Auto-unsubscribes after bounces.
- Does not require me to expose a new web page to end users.
That's it. If it has other features, those features can actually be considered "liabilities" rather than "features".
Am I screwed?
Update: I was right, SmartList's "procbounce" program only processes the first address listed in a bounce message that has multiple DSNs in it -- and it also inexplicably truncates the message at a few hundred lines, meaning if there are more than a few dozen DSNs, it won't process any of them. Hooray.
