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