> 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.