A member's status determines whether a member receives mail sent to the list, or if they are unsubscribed or otherwise prevented from receiving normal mail

The statuses available are:

• Normal: Normal members, who are going to receive normal mailings to the entire list if their membership kind is set to receive mail
• Confirm: Members who have not yet confirmed their membership. These members do not receive mail until they have done so
• Expired: Members whose memberships have expired. These members do not receive mail until their expiration date is advanced to a future date, or erased from their membership record
• Held: Members who are on hold due to bad email addresses. These members were put on hold because they were undeliverable for the number of times and length of time you specified in your list settings. These members do not receive mail unless they or you change their subscription back to normal
• Private: Members who have not yet been approved by an administrator to join a private list. These members do not receive mail until an administrator has approved them
• Referred: Members who have been referred to join the list by a friend, but who have not yet joined.
• Unsub: Members who have unsubscribed from your list. These members are not delivered to unless they resubscribe to your list.

This is the kind of mail the member has selected to receive from the list. Generally, membership kind is relevant to discussion lists only. The kinds of memberships available are:

• Mail: Members who receive messages as they are contributed
• Digest: Members who receive one daily message, with all the contributions for that day
• Mimedigest: Members who receive one daily message, with all the contributions for that day, in MIME format. The formatting of the messages is preserved
• Index: Members who receive one daily message with only the subject lines for that day
• Nomail: Members who receive no mail from this mailing list.