At 11:07 05/19/1999 Wednesday -0400, you wrote: |1) I have been staring at the list of defaults for keywords in the Listowners Manual, for longer than I would like to admit, trying to figure out what the default setting is for Auto-Delete. | |The manual reads: |Auto-Delete= No if "Validate= Yes", Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(4),Max(100) otherwise | |Does it mean? |If "Validate= Yes", then "Auto-Delete= No" |If "Validate= No", then "Auto-Delete= Yes,Semi-Auto,Delay(4),Max(100)" | |If so, since Validate defaults to No and I am using the default, I must add Auto-Delete= No to my header to prevent any and all auto-deleting, correct? Regardless of the default, you can override it. * Auto-Delete= NO would be unambiguous. |2) I am getting the following error message in my daily monitoring report for a large number of my subscribers, all from the same mail server, although there are no problems with actual mail delivery. Hence my sudden interest in being sure that nothing will auto-delete. Can anyone tell me what "Relaying not permitted" is? | |Last error: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 Relaying not permitted: How do you/they know that there are no problems with delivery. The fact that you got a bounce is proof-positive that there was a problem, regardless of whether your correspondent received it or not. (Occasionally I have run across similar bounces w/ no errors ... I just wanted to make sure you knew.) /Pete