Thanks, gentlemen!

It looks like I need to review the SMTP stuff.  It helps to know where to look.

John

At 02:17 PM 11/5/2002 -0600, Al Iverson wrote:
>That's in the case of transient delivery failures only. What he pasted
>was a 5.x.x code, meaning permanent delivery failure. By spec that means
>"mark it bounced and don't retry it." Sometimes the 5.x.x code isn't
>correct, but if you fail to honor them you're out of spec and going to
>anger a lot of sites.
>
>Regards,
>Al Iverson
>
>Richard Keller wrote:
>>
>> LISTSERV, as well as your email software (whether it's LSMTP, sendmail, or another)
>> should continue to resend the email as long as the time limit set for, say, 1 day.  If it
>> continues to fail after a certain amount of time (the default is usually 5 days) it will then
>> be deleted from the system.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> > Yesterday we had a hardware failure in our Exchange system that
>> > stopped mail delivery for a very short time.  Unfortunately, several
>> > of our internal Listserv lists were trying to send mail at the time.
>> > The affected email addresses were correctly put under monitoring by
>> > Listserv.
>> >
>> > FYI, the error generated by Liserv is of the following form:
>> >
>> > The following 6 subscribers are currently being monitored:
>> >
>> > Err First Last Address
>> > --- ----- ----- -------
>> > 1 11/04 11/04 [log in to unmask]
>> > Last error: Unavailable; DSN status was 5.1.1
>[snip]

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