On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:09:13 +0100 Andrew Young <mail@...> wrote: > On 06/07/15 12:01, E. Liddell wrote: > > The possible solutions that occur to me are three: > > > > 1. Whack GMail over the collective head with a blunt instrument until it behaves > > itself (good luck on that) > > 2. Have the list mailer check for key phrases in bounce messages and ignore > > them if they're found > > 3. Increase the list mailer's bounce tolerance to 5-10 messages, and have > > affected users use a filter to auto-trash the messages unread. > > > > I'm pretty sure I've been unsubscribed without noticing (because I do auto-trash > > the "threat messages") at least once--that would have been around April 1 of last > > year. > > > 4. Use a different mail list backend. Do you know of any that specifically work around Google's overzealous filters? If not, I doubt it would help--unsubscribing dead accounts is a reasonable thing for ML software to do, and checking whether or not messages to the account bounce is an easy way to do it . . . E. Liddell