Melinda Gilmore wrote:

Help! We just had a strange thing happen, a lists subscribers were all removed and no mail was going out. If there are not subscribers where does the mail go? I have looked in all the logs and it looks like the mail was sent. However, it seems to go into la la land.

If a list has no members, no post is sent. What did you see in what log? You might have seen a reject of an attempted post.

User wants to know if the mail is kept somewhere where we can retrieve. Not where that mail is? Any guidance would be appreciated.

Assuming archiving is enabled for the list, a post will be in the list's archive. With default archiving settings, a copy of the message is also in the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file.

If the list is digestable, even if there are no members, the post will be added to lists/listname/digest.mbox, but this file is deleted when periodic or size triggered digests are processed, and with no members, no digest will be sent.

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