> Now to my questions: a) why isn't the probe system finding and deleting
> these? And b) what changes, if any, can I make to improve detection and
> deletion of these rogue addresses?

It looks like your server is running sendmail, so my guess would be that
sendmail doesn't have the patch applied that allows it to process LISTSERV
probe messages.  That would mean the probes are never getting back to
LISTSERV to be processed.  If that's the case, you should actually turn
the probe feature off, or you may be creating double-bounces.

Assuming you can't get sendmail patched, your next best bet might be to
see if your postmaster will let you turn on mail-merge for one mailing,
and set auto-delete to Manual for that mailing.  You can then merge &*To;
into the message, and as long as the remote server returns the whole
message body, you should have the address.  Just make sure to turn
mail-merge back off when you're done, because mail-merged messages are
sent as probes by default.

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Liam Kelly
Senior Consulting Analyst
L-Soft international
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