Sometime if use e-mail get command you can lock the list if you don't
specify nolock.

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-1] Filipa Gaudêncio wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It seems that FREE command worked just fine.
> But I don't know what held the list, since I haven't done anything to
> held it.
>
> Have you got any suggestion about how could I find out, the reason that
> held the list?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Filipa Maria Pacheco Gaudêncio
> Laboratório de Internet e Informática Alpicada
> Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão
> Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
>
> Telf.:+351 271 220 155
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Winship
> Sent: quinta-feira, 13 de Junho de 2002 15:33
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> Subject: Re: Postponed messages
>
> The command to free a held list is
> FREE listname pw=xxxxxxxx
>
> (you may, or may not, need to include your password)
>
> However, before you do that you need to determine *why* your list is
> held,
> if you didn't issue a HOLD command.  If your list merely exceed its
> daily threshold, no harm in freeing the list, but if it is something
> else,
> well . . .    If you don't know why the list has been held your really
> should determine *why* it is held before you try to free it.     Douglas
>