I have had this problem with *my own* mailbox.  And I guarantee that it
is not due to inactivity !!

In fact it just happened yesterday.  And the error message went through
successfully, to the same mailbox that they said was "unavailable due to
inactivity".  I am also on Earthlink.

It seems so far to be primarily Earthlink, but I have seen the same
error message from one or two other ISPs.

I called Earthlink, and got NO information.  Basically was told that I
was wrong, and it could not happen.

Jan Guthrie - OES-L

John Cunniff wrote:
> Hello, Everybody!
>
> Many thanks for your responses! I appreciated your explanation about
> inactivity of mailbox that means a user has not logged in to receive
> mail in an extended periods of time. But that is strange. Because this
> "bounced" subscriber has posted more than two messages on Sunday
> night, again last night. It should not be an extended period of time
> that he was inactive. I just don't understand why this bounced back to
> me.
>
> Paul, that is OK. It just bounce one time, but not over 5 (five)
> messages as undeliverable. It must be a rare occasion that my
> subscriber's mail bounced back to my listserv.
>
> Again, many thanks for your quick response!
>
> Johnny :)
>
>