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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds good.

A few thoughts:

 * Marking the user as clearly disabled if they have no working email
addresses has the benefit of possibly saving other users from wasting
their time trying to talk to them (eg on a bug or question.)

 * Having your account disabled due to bouncing mail probably should
not block you logging in using that email address, if you still
remember the password.  (Does that imply a different kind of
disablement to other cases?)

 * It might be interesting to count how many addresses ever end up
getting reenabled, and also how many addresses have some mail bounced
but not all.

 * I see some "I'm not getting any mail" irc questions.  I wonder if
exposing the bounciness of an address in the web ui would be useful,
even before it gets to the point of being disabled, just on the
address page saying "%d out of %d mails sent to this address recently
bounced."

 * Generally speaking telling people about mail problems through the
web ui is more likely to work than telling them through mail. :)

m