the mailbox id will often change, but I'd guess this
subscriber will have "james" "jim" or "jimmy" somewhere in
their name.  I keep a copy of the current subscriber list and
check for the string with grep.  Yes, you will still have a
number of responses, but not so many you can't send a message
to check.  I'll put up with the bad addresses for a while,
then get fed up and begin tracking them down.
--Joe


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:00:02 -0600
>From: Dennis Budd <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Monitoring of non-existent accounts?
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Same thing is happening to me.  I assume that one of my
subscribers
>has forwarded mail to an account that no longer exists.  So
the
>account that bounces is not subscribed, but that account
that is
>forwarding mail to it is.  How to determine which subscribed
account
>is responsible for this is the challenge.  If you had an
actual
>bounced message you probably could do it, but you don't.
>
>Dennis
>
>On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Ahern, Shannon wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I am getting Daily Error Monitoring Reports that contain
references to
>> accounts the do not even exist on the list. These are
private,
>> approval-only lists that require domain authentication for
website
>> access (and are SSL). I cannot understand why I would get
monitoring
>> reports for accounts not actually subscribed.
>>
>> I know that the spam-generating viruses going around can
fake mail from
>> any accounts, so when I see that stuff, I know it isn't
real. But how on
>> earth can anything make my listserv ping or probe a non-
subscribed
>> account and then send me a report of the results? I am
baffled. This
>> person is not a subscriber - how can they be monitored?
>>
>> Here's one of the reports:
>>
>>
>> The following 1 subscriber is currently being monitored:
>>
>> Err First Last  Address
>> --- ----- ----- -------
>>   1 01/30 01/30 [log in to unmask]
>>                 Last error: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 unknown or
illegal alias:
>>                             [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA for any insight!
>>
>> Shannon
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Shannon Ahern
>> DevelopMentor
>> Website Project Manager
>> 310-543-1716
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.
>> It is a bad plan that cannot be changed.
>>
>>