On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:10:53 CST, "John W. Luther" <[log in to unmask]> said: > Greetings! > > I've just been handed the job of maintaining our Listserv. > > I keep getting copies of posts that are marked with delivery errors. Here is the "explanation." > > The enclosed message has been identified as a delivery error for the EMPNEWS > list because it was sent to [log in to unmask] (Where you can replace "empnews" with the name of any other list. > > What does it mean? Is something misconfigured on our system that I keep getting so many of this type of error? It makes no sense to me. Well.. it usually means the following: 1) Listserv has a user subscribed to a list 'empnews'. 2) SOmebody posts to the list. 3) The userid is bogus, broken, gone, deactivated, over quota, etc. 4) The mail bounces (correctly) to owner-listname. 5) You get handed the mail to do something about it. What to do: 1) Look at the enclosed message. Is there something useful like 'User Unknown' or 'Uknown Host' in it? Listserv is able to auto-parse many delivery errors itself, but some (most notably QMail and Microsoft Exchange) don't follow RFC1891/1894. 2) If the address is in fact broken, unsubscribe them from the list. 3) Consider configuring auto-delete on your lists. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech