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Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:25:10 -0500
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Jan A Bergeron VMD wrote:
> _______________________________________________________
>
>       Err First Last  Address
>       --- ----- ----- -------
>       301 11/09 01/28 [log in to unmask]
>                  Last error: SMTP; 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
>
>       Subscribers will be automatically deleted from the list when delivery
>       errors have been reported for  a period of 5 days or more, or when
>       25 delivery errors have  been received, whichever occurs first.
> _______________________________________________________
>
> I have never had a subscriber with this address, and I cannot track it to
> any existing addresses.  Why doesn't LISTSERV get rid of it if there are
> 301 errors and it has been going on for nearly three months? Is there
> anything else I can do?

Listserv isn't perfect. You have a subscriber who's forwarding email
to a now-extict email address and most likely, the mailer on that system
is not returning enough information to point Listserv to the actual
address. This can be a major pain in the neck to find. Try setting your
list to "Auto-delete=No" then see what messages bounce back. That might
lead you to the particular subscription that needs to be deleted. If that
doesn't help, run a manual probe of the list.

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