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
> >
> > The list owners are now asking if the mail that failed to be delivered
> > will be resent by Listserv.  I've been looking at Listserv Site
> > Manager and Developer manuals, but am not finding this issue addressed
> > (yet).  My thought is that Listserv makes one attempt to hand the mail
> > off to the mail system and is then done with it, that no continuing
> > attempts will be made to send from Listserv to the affected mail
> > addresses.  In other words, the Listserv will not re attempt to send
> > that particular message to the offending mail addresses.  Am I correct
> > in this inference?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John W. Luther
> > Systems Administrator
> > Computing and Information Services
> > University of Missouri - Rolla
> >
> > "This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the
> > earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites us all.
> > Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
> > Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself..."
> >
> > Attributed to Chief Seattle

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