This option determines whether members who bounce a great
deal of mail have their membership automatically "held" by Lyris.
When people's email addresses go
bad (for instance, they change to another Internet Service Provider) each email
message sent to their old address bounces back to Lyris. By default, Lyris will
analyze the bounces, and determine who is causing them. If a member's email
address appears to be invalid for several days in a row, Lyris automatically
disables that member's Lyris membership, so that Lyris no longer sends them
mail.
In most situations, automatic
holding of users is a desired feature. In some situations, such as with
internal mailing lists, where email address problems can be temporary (or must
be repaired by a email system administrator) you can disable this feature.
Lyris will then never put a membership on "hold".
When a user is placed on hold,
Lyris sends the user an email message indicating that this has occurred, as well
as a copy of the most recent error message Lyris received from this user. This
notification message, if the user receives it, can be very helpful to the user
in determining why their email was being rejected by their mail system.