> File creation error delivering to 'rmarkovits'. > >Can someone tell me whether this is a permanent or a temporary bounce? Could be either. I've gotten file creation errors as a result of insufficient disk space on the receiving mail server. I've also gotten it due to insufficient permissions by the receiving daemon on the system it tried to forward to. Could be faulty hardware or network access also. My policy, when it doubt, delete...;-]...but then I'm ruthless that way cause I run a technical list and my subscribers should know better...bg...;-] But seriously, the issue of temporary vs. permanent errors, and when to quiet del vs. del, is one I've struggled with since my list went over 1,000 subscribers. Until recently I was using Exchange Server as my SMTP forwarder, and I had to deal with a ton of bounces. Now that I'm using LSMTP its gone down drastically (no big surprise there I guess). LSMTP keeps "reports" on questionable addresses and only sends me a summary every day of who its monitoring. With Auto-del I can forget about them. The few (and I can honestly say its gone from say 100+ per message down to 6 or 7 per) that I now have to deal with can be dealt with more friendly like. I can let them sit for 4 or 5 days and see if they get sorted out. Its dramatically cut the amount of time I spend on list management. Cheers, Russ R.C. Consulting, Inc. - NT/Internet Security owner of the NTBugTraq mailing list: http://www.ntbugtraq.com