diff --git a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman-extra.cfg.j2 b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman-extra.cfg.j2
index b3d8c0bd3b..b0962b976f 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman-extra.cfg.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman-extra.cfg.j2
@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@
 # a human.
 site_owner: "root@{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
 
-# We set this to less than the Exim's smtp_accept_queue_per_connection value.
 [mta]
+# We set this to less than the Exim's smtp_accept_queue_per_connection value.
 max_recipients: 45
+# When a recipient's bounce score reaches the configured threshold for the
+# list, send a VERP probe to make sure it wasn't the content which got rejected
+# and that their mailserver really doesn't want anything sent from us at all.
+verp_probes: yes
 
+[runner.out]
 # The outgoing runner is what is responsible for sending email. By default
 # there is only one instance of this runner. We have seen some emails get
 # queued up for 5-10 minutes in lists with larger membership. Increase this
 # value to 4 to improve outgoing mail throughput.
-[runner.out]
 instances: 4