Thanks for the quick response.  Two more questions interspersed below.

>>I'm not clear on how autodelete works:
>>
>>In Auto-delete=yes,semi-Auto,delay(4),max(10):
>>
>>how does "delay" work.  I assume the number is number of contiguous
>>days.  When the first bounce occurs, an entry is made into the
>>listname.autodel file so they can be monitored.  Then what?
>
>It sounds like you understand it.  An address starts being monitored
>when LISTSERV receives a bounce (in a format it understands) for the
>address in question.
>
>If four consecutive days pass without another bounce being received,
>the address is no longer monitored.
>
>If another bounce is received on day #4 the address is removed.

Hmm.  But this would be only the second bounce.  Still removed?

>
>If ten bounces are received in a four-day period the address is
>removed after the 10th bounce.  (So for instance if ten bounces are
>received on the first day the address would be removed immediately;
>LISTSERV wouldn't wait another three days to do it.)
>
>Because of the way this works, an An Auto-Delete= setting of the type
>you quote tends to work best for discussion mailing lists.  For
>announcement mailing lists you generally have to make some
>adjustments for this to work well.
>
>>1. Is this entry removed from the autodel file on the 4th day if no
>>more errors have happened.  That is, does monitoring stop 4 days
>>after the most recent bounce?
>
>Yes.
>
>>2. Suppose one error happens every day for the next 3 days.  Is the
>>subscriber removed from the list on the 4th day.
>
>No.

hmm - but this would be 4 bounces in  4 days.  One for the first day, one each on the next 3 days.
Want to take back your "No"?

>
>>3. Suppose 12 errors happen on the next day.  Is the subscriber
>>removed based on the "max(10)" setting?
>
>Yes.
>
>>4. Suppose an error happens every 5th day.  The subscriber will
>>never get removed, right?
>
>Right.
>
>>5. So on a list that gets one message per week,  if you want to
>>remove a subscriber if they bounce two weeks in a row, you should
>>code delay(8) or perhaps delay(9) in case the bounce message takes a
>>while?
>
>Sure.  Something like the following:
>
>       Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto,Delay(8),Max(2)
>
>would work OK for a weekly announcement mailing list; if two bounces
>(which hopefully correspond to two consecutive mailings bouncing) are
>received in eight days then the address is deleted, otherwise not.
>Alternatively you could just set the mailing lists to remove bouncing
>addresses immediately.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Jacob Haller, Technical Support
>L-Soft international, Inc
>http://www.lsoft.com/


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