Peter Collier wrote:
On a similar vein, I had a message a few days ago from the "list manager program", stating that it was unable to deliver a massage to me. The email attached the message it said it couldn't deliver but that was utter nonsence because I had received it a few days ago!
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The message went on to say that it would continue to try to deliver the message again, send a probe and if it still failed, I would be unsubscibed. The message that it said it was trying to deliver has not come, however I'm still subscribed.
?? Which is it? Did you get it or didn't you? Mail servers can hold on to spooled email a while before it retries sending it. Imagine Sending email 1 (bounces because of some problem) Sending email 2 (warning about being unsubscribed, is rejected but only spooled) Sending email 3 (is received successfully) Re-sending email 2 (since problem is over, is now received) The problem is that the list manager isn't built into the mail server. So things like this can happen