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John Lyon <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:51:57 -0500
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> Hello -
>
> I've got a question about the RENEW/NORENEW setting for individual
> users.  My problem is that someone on a list keeps getting kicked off,
> apparently because of a flaky mail server (though I'd be curious if anyone
> could suggest other possibilities, too) and I want to prevent that for this
> user.  I know I could change the Auto-Delete setting for the entire list,
> but I really want to just exempt this user.  Looking at the setting in the
> web interface, I see "User is exempt from renewal/probing" as the
> description for NORENEW.  But the user manual at Lsoft doesn't suggest
> anything about probing -- it says "Enables or disables subscription renewal
> confirmation on an individual subscriber basis. Setting a subscription to
> NORENEW is particularly useful for exempting list owners, redistribution
> lists, and other subscriptions which should not or must not receive the
> confirmation request message from the renewal process." So the question is,
> will setting a user to NORENEW really exempt them from probing and getting
> kicked off for failures?

They will not be sent passive Probes, therefore will be exempt from probe
failures/deletions. They could still be removed if they fail the Delay and
Max settings in Auto-Delete for permanent bounces.

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