I'm sorry to keep coming back to this but we again are having problems with
subscribers getting auto-deleted apparently due to Out of Office replies.
That is the reason I see in the daily monitoring logs for some of our lists.
We sent distribute jobs to our configured lists and the error says Probe
failed and then it displays the persons vacation message.

If I set a list with auto-delete properties of Max(100), Delay(0) what will
that due. Will that disregard the Delay option totally and just look at the
Max property? Or will it just auto-delete a person if just one bounce
occurs?

Also what happens if the MAX or Delay has not been reached yet and the
address that was bouncing then receives the next mailing, shouldn't the Max
and Delay get reset then? Just as soon as a successfully mailing goes
through? This doesn't seem to be happening because we have Max(100),
Delay(14) configured on one list and mailings go out at least 2-3 times a
week. Valid addresses are being auto-deleted due to Vacation messages but
these same subscribers usually received the previous mailing only a few days
ago then all of sudden get auto-deleted on the next mailing. It seems the
Max and Delay are not getting reset properly.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francoise Becker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Auto Delete properties


> On 23 Mar 2006 at 11:47, Michael DeGregory wrote:
>
> > We have a list with Max(5), Delay(160) This means if the subscribers
errors five
> > times than remove the account in 160 days, correct?
>
> No. It will get auto-deleted when it gets the 5th bounce (the next
> morning, actually).
>
> Subscriber will be auto-deleted when EITHER the max OR the delay is
> reached. I.e. Max(100),Delay(4) means that if there are 100 bounces
> for the address in just 1 to 3 days, it will be deleted, and if there
> are bounces for 4 days, even if it does not hit 100, it will be
> deleted. If there are fewer than 100 bounces for the first 3 days,
> and NO bounces on the 4th day, then LISTSERV will not auto-delete but
> continue to monitor for 4 more days. If ANY bounces occur within
> those next 4 days, then the address will be auto-deleted. If NO
> bounces occur during those next 4 days, then the bounce-count for
> that address will be reset to 0.
>
> -- 
> Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>
>
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