On Fri, 4 Dec 1992 11:09:54 ECT Martin Raish <MRAISH@BINGVMB> said: >I'm curious, though, as to what exactly LMail is, and what errors are >considered "permanent." LMail is a mailer for VM, index the LMAIL-L list at SEARN for more information. Errors are classified in a number of categories and a numeric code is associated to each category. LISTSERV takes action on codes which indicate permanent errors, such as "no such user" and "no such node". > Disc quota exceeded = ?? > Unable to connect for __ days = ?? There would be definitely not permanent, although LMail is not in a position to need to issue this type of errors. It has other types of temporary or "unclear" errors, such as error in configuration file. >I know that there are myriad error messages; how will listserv >interpret them all? LISTSERV only looks at the codes. This works only with mailers that send their delivery errors in the special format shown in the example I posted. For now this means only LMail, hopefully MX will do the same in the foreseeable future. Don't expect Internet mailers to follow, the mere thought that this is an idea from Eric Thomas is enough of a justification to not only not do it, but make sure anybody who comes up with a similar plot against Internet values and the constitutional right to the generation of unintelligible/unusable delivery error messages gets stoned on the spot :-) Eric