At 08:34 AM 1/26/00 Brian Kane wrote:
Dan, If the message bounces back "Permanent Fatal Error" it means the mail account was closed. Very common. People change mail addresses all the time...especially with free services such as Hotmail. Just delete the user from your list.
You can get pseudo permanent errors if DNS is misconfigured. And you can get them if people run both primary and secondary name-service on the same system or even on the same network (I bet a lot of people on this list do that <wry grin>); I'd never remove someone for only a few permanent fatal errors. That's why I run a "bounces" list for all my lists. Either see one of the O'Reilly books for good information on how to use a bounces list, or use a list-hosting company (like ours <grin>) that supplies it automatically with all lists).
Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <www.nobaloney.net>, <www.mailtraqna.com>, <www.email-lists.com>