Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 05:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: john at infoback dot net (John M. Reese)
Subject: Is the Subject Line changeable?
Is the Subject Line changeable on an outgoing autoresponded document?
Thanks.
~John
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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 19:18:57 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at hopf.dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Is the Subject Line changeable?
At 05:20 -0400 7/7/96, John M. Reese wrote:
>Is the Subject Line changeable on an outgoing autoresponded document?
Not in 1.0.1. It may be in 1.0.2. What would you like to go there?
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 04:16:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: john at infoback dot net (John M. Reese)
Subject: Re: Is the Subject Line changeable?
>>Is the Subject Line changeable on an outgoing autoresponded document?
>
>Not in 1.0.1. It may be in 1.0.2. What would you like to go there?
I think it would be a powerful feature to be able to have Subject Lines
that could be changeable on outgoing autoresponded documents. For example,
if a Mac ISP wanted to have the autoreply documents for:
Prices@
FAQ@
TOS@
Access-numbers@
And wanted the "Prices" address to return the default document, but have
that returned message have a Subject Line of "MacNet's Price List" or
something. And then have the "FAQ" document returned with "MacNet's
Frequently Asked Questions". And so on..
I think the *ultimate* functionality, in my opinion, would be if AutoShare
documents could not only contain:
/=original to pick up the original message to be listed along with the
autoreply, but to also look for and recognize (if present):
/=subject "Some Text To Be Used as Subject Line of this Outgoing Doc"
And possibly:
/=replyto A Reply-To Address in the header for this outgoing doc
Just a suggestion. I think being able to control the outgoing message
Subject Line with a command line (like /=subject followed by the "TEXT")
would be very beneficial for most uses.
This ability, if it can be added easily, would add some powerful
capabilities to AutoShare. And if the ability to change the Subject Line
could be as easy as changing a command line in an AutoShare document, it
would allow the publishing of information through AutoShare to happen
*outside* of the AutoShare interface. In other words, someone away from
their network could easily FTP a new AutoShare default document into their
system, and now they can control the document and the Subject line of those
outgoing messages - just an additional publishing function that I can see
many uses for.
Any comments, suggestions, or other ideas are appreciated.
Regards,
~John
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John M. Reese, Pres./CEO john at infoback dot net
InfoBack Corporation Auto-reply: info at infoback dot net
"The Email-On-Demand Network" http://www.infoback.net/
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:53:53 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at hopf.dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Is the Subject Line changeable?
At 04:16 -0400 7/8/96, John M. Reese wrote:
>/=subject "Some Text To Be Used as Subject Line of this Outgoing Doc"
I like this.
>/=replyto A Reply-To Address in the header for this outgoing doc
I'll look into it too.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:25:32 +0100
From: James Berriman <james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk>
Subject: Re: Is the Subject Line changeable?
John's suggestions remind me of the discussion we had about sending
auto-responses forwarded from the account.
It would be nice to have a couple more tokens:
/=from (inserts address of original message sender).
/=to (inserts address of original recipient).
This would allow constructs such as:
Your address has been recorded as /=from.
Useful in 'sub' responses.
Or:
The address /=to is not a valid email address.
Useful in responses to the account.
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:40:40 -0800
From: gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu (Gary Szabo)
Subject: How does one get the latest beta?
Hi, folks...forgive the repetition, but how does one get the latest beta
version of the AutoShare software? I recall I *used to* get 'em sent to me
via e-mail back at my previous institution, but when I signed up to the new
autoshare-talk address with my new e-mail address all that seems to have
stopped.
Any clues for the clueless? Thanks in advance...
___________________________________________________________________________
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| Director of Technology & | a knight in shining armour to lead all |
| Computer Services | customers out of a mire of technological |
| Centralia College | chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was |
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:44:13 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at hopf.dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: How does one get the latest beta?
At 16:40 -0800 7/15/96, Gary Szabo wrote:
>how does one get the latest beta version of the AutoShare software?
You may pick up the released 1.0 and 1.0.1 from
<ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/>
or from the web page, see below.
The 1.0.2 betas are not public. Lack of time mostly.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:29:04 -0400
From: michael_reid at wow dot net (Michael Reid)
Subject: New AutoShare
Hi Gang,
I'm pretty new here and I was wondering, is there a newer version of
AutoShare 1.0fix? I would really appreciate any advice...
Thank You,
Postmaster.
WOW.Net Ltd.
<http://www.wow.net/>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:15:40 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Archive path?
In the Autoshare window, it says
The archive path does not exist
Reconfigure Autoshare
But I've done this a number of times, and the path I've given it really
does exist. Any suggestions, as it doesn't make archives.
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
P H I L G Y F O R D WIRED UK work: +44 (0)171 775 3434
phil at wired.co dot uk facs: +44 (0)171 775 3401
http://www.paranoia.com/~fabius home: +44 (0)171 622 9058
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:25:09 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: New AutoShare
At 12:29 -0400 7/22/96, Michael Reid wrote:
>I'm pretty new here and I was wondering, is there a newer version of
>AutoShare 1.0fix? I would really appreciate any advice...
Version 1.0.1 (the 1.0 fix) is still the latest release. I have been
working on 1.0.2 from time to time. Sorry, I can't give you a release date.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:26:39 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Archive path?
At 14:15 +0100 7/23/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>In the Autoshare window, it says
>
>The archive path does not exist
>Reconfigure Autoshare
>
>But I've done this a number of times, and the path I've given it really
>does exist. Any suggestions, as it doesn't make archives.
Have you configured the path by typing it or by using the Select button? If
the former, the path requires a trailing colon.
The problem might be elsewhere though: the message may not have qualified
as a list contribution. To speed things up, you may want to
-shut down AutoShare
-send a contribution to the list
-wait for the message file to appear in the Filed Mail folder
-shut down AIMS, start up AutoShare so that it may process the file
-shut down AutoShare
-drag the processed file out of the Incoming Mail folder
-start up both programs to return to normal
-inspect the file's STR# resource with ResEdit
The STR# resource should reflect the list address.
Open the file with a text editor too, the body may indicate something.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:59:53 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Archive path?
At 08:26 -0700 7/23/96, Mikael Hansen wrote:
>At 14:15 +0100 7/23/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>
>>In the Autoshare window, it says
>>
>>The archive path does not exist
>>Reconfigure Autoshare
>Have you configured the path by typing it or by using the Select button? If
>the former, the path requires a trailing colon.
By the way, 1.0.1 requires everything to take place on the boot disk.
(1.0.2 will not require this.)
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:18:12 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Re: Archive path?
>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:26:39 -0700
>From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
>Subject: Re: Archive path?
>
>At 14:15 +0100 7/23/96, Phil Gyford wrote:
>
>>In the Autoshare window, it says
>>
>>The archive path does not exist
>>Reconfigure Autoshare
>>
>>But I've done this a number of times, and the path I've given it really
>>does exist. Any suggestions, as it doesn't make archives.
>
>Have you configured the path by typing it or by using the Select button? If
>the former, the path requires a trailing colon.
I've tried both. It has a trailing colon.
>The problem might be elsewhere though: the message may not have qualified
>as a list contribution. To speed things up, you may want to
>The STR# resource should reflect the list address.
I've done that. The list address is haddock at wired.co dot uk, and the STR#
resource says haddock.m at wired.co dot uk Is that right?
>Open the file with a text editor too, the body may indicate something.
The body was completely empty (as it was when I sent it). The header looked
pretty normal.
Any ideas?
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
P H I L G Y F O R D WIRED UK work: +44 (0)171 775 3434
phil at wired.co dot uk facs: +44 (0)171 775 3401
http://www.paranoia.com/~fabius home: +44 (0)171 622 9058
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 12:16:47 +0100
From: Listmaster at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk
Subject: I'm away until 13 August
I'll be out of the office from 26 July to 13 August. Hopefully this should
not affect the list, but summer maintenance schedules here at the
University could involve some interruption to network services and there
will be no-one here to restart the server if it goes down.
James Berriman (Listmaster)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:18:23 -0400
From: michael_reid at wow dot net (Michael Reid)
Subject: Re: AutoShare-Talk digest 24 Jul 1996
Hi all,
I just wanted to ask two questions.
(1) Thanks for your replies from the last email. I was looking through the
archives and I saw references to AutoShare automatically making accounts
ACK and DIGEST upon subscription. Could someone give me details on how this
is achieved?
(2) Recently I saw a few messages in the Filed Mail folder (with some extra
hearer info.) and this crashed my AutoShare. Because of this I have to turn
off AutoShare when I leave the office at night. Is there anything I could
do to keep my mailing lists active twenty-four hours a day?
Thanks again.
Thank You,
Postmaster.
WOW.Net Ltd.
<http://www.wow.net/>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:20:37 +0000
From: Bill Bedford <billbpm at mousa.demon.co dot uk>
Subject: Blank lines
I have a few list members who have mailers which put two blank lines
between the header and the message. This confuses autoshare and it assumes
that the second blank line is the end of the message.
Is there a work around for this?
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:29:40 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Blank lines
At 13:20 +0000 8/8/96, Bill Bedford wrote:
>I have a few list members who have mailers which put two blank lines
>between the header and the message. This confuses autoshare and it assumes
>that the second blank line is the end of the message.
I don't recall this being a specific problem. Is it list contributions
only? Can someone else confirm this? If so, it's definitely fixed in the
yet unreleased 1.0.2, as I have just checked it.
>Is there a work around for this?
Not that I can think of :-(
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Subject: AutoShare hangs?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 09:19:40 -0400
From: Thomas Fruin <tfruin at nido dot cl>
First of all a HELLO to all readers of this list (I'm new ;) I hope
AutoShare-Talk will be as useful as some of the other Mac/e-mail lists I
am participating in, such as MailShare-Talk, Emailer-Talk, etc.
Now to the meat of my question: I've installed AutoShare and am
experimenting with a mailing list setup. Things seem to look all right,
but when I send the list a message (which I see appearing on the server
in the Filed Mail folder), AutoShare kicks in, displays a message about
processing a file and then just sits there forever. It basically hangs.
What could be going on?
-- Thomas Fruin
Computer Coordinator - Nido de Aguilas International School - Santiago
de Chile
tfruin at nido dot cl
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:31:33 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: AutoShare hangs?
At 09:19 -0400 8/9/96, Thomas Fruin wrote:
>but when I send the list a message (which I see appearing on the server
>in the Filed Mail folder), AutoShare kicks in, displays a message about
>processing a file and then just sits there forever. It basically hangs.
Mostly likely, you got a corrupted file stuck in either the Filed Mail
folder or the Incoming Mail folder. Drag the file out of the folder and
check to see if it's missing its resource fork. If you are not familiar
with ResEdit, stuff the file with StuffIt Lite (to preserve possible
resources) and send it to me at meh at dnai dot com with a note of which folder
the file was in, and I'll explain the details to you.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:41:01 -0400
From: michael_reid at wow dot net (Michael Reid)
Subject: Re: Blank lines... and more...
Hi,
>At 13:20 +0000 8/8/96, Bill Bedford wrote:
>
>>I have a few list members who have mailers which put two blank lines
>>between the header and the message. This confuses autoshare and it assumes
>>that the second blank line is the end of the message.
>
>I don't recall this being a specific problem. Is it list contributions
>only? Can someone else confirm this? If so, it's definitely fixed in the
>yet unreleased 1.0.2, as I have just checked it.
The 1.0.2 beta also fixed such things as extra header info. like (a) from
Unix based linux mail clients, (b) extra RFC header, i.e. 'x-something'.
It also fixes problems with extra content, like if a mail client puts some
of the message info in the body of the message (subject, from, to, etc...).
I haven't had a crash or freeze since.
It's even better at filtering auto-reply accounts that are trying to reply
to internal listserv queries.
Thank You,
Postmaster.
WOW.Net Ltd.
<http://www.wow.net/>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:23:47 +0100
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: MailArchiver
Has anyone played with this yet? <http://www.blueworld.com/mailarchiver>
Looks like a very neat way of archiving mailing lists to a Filemaker Pro
database.
It works well with AIMS format messages. So if you subscribe a dummy AIMS
account to one of your lists, save as files into an appropriate folder and
point MailArchiver at it you'll be rewarded with a web-searchable FM
database of the list.
(:-]) James
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:38:11 -0700
From: RuthAnne Bevier <thanne at cco.caltech dot edu>
Subject: Autoshare configuration problem?
I am a new subscriber to this list, so please forgive me if I'm posting
inappropriately. I have just started using AIMS with Autoshare 1.0, and am
having a pretty weird problem with autoreply, which I've been testing. Any
help would be most gratefully received.
I have an account, thanne2, on the AIMS server, and I have set it up to
keep one copy and forward a copy to the Filed Mail folder. This part seems
to work fine -- I have a thanne2 folder under Docs, and have created a
Default message that gets sent out automatically to anyone sending mail to
thanne2. The problem I have is with filtering. I set up a text file
called thanne2 in the Filters folder, containing nothing but a row of five
asterisks. When I try sending thanne2 a message from another system, the
following things happen: an entry gets added to Filters:thanne2 that
contains the *thanne2* email address, *not* the address of the sending
account (!!), and of course the sending account gets my automated reply no
matter how many times I send a message from that account.
A second, possibly related, problem that recently occurred is that another
user sent out a message to several recipients on different systems,
including this thanne2 account. Not only did she receive my autoreply, but
the From: line on the autoreply was not my address -- it was the first
address from the To: line of her original message! The message header for
the autoreply she received said that it had come from this other person,
"via" thanne2.
I would be very glad if anyone could give me suggestions of settings to
double-check or anything else I might try. This is quite puzzling,
especially since the setup instructions look so foolproof.
--RuthAnne Bevier
System Manager
Caltech
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:25:25 -0800
From: Gary Szabo <gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu>
Subject: Re:Autoshare configuration problem?
At 5:38 PM -0700 9/10/96, RuthAnne Bevier wrote:
>I have an account, thanne2, on the AIMS server, and I have set it up to
>keep one copy and forward a copy to the Filed Mail folder. This part seems
>to work fine -- I have a thanne2 folder under Docs, and have created a
>Default message that gets sent out automatically to anyone sending mail to
>thanne2. The problem I have is with filtering. I set up a text file
>called thanne2 in the Filters folder, containing nothing but a row of five
>asterisks. When I try sending thanne2 a message from another system, the
>following things happen: an entry gets added to Filters:thanne2 that
>contains the *thanne2* email address, *not* the address of the sending
>account (!!), and of course the sending account gets my automated reply no
>matter how many times I send a message from that account.
I had a similar problem when I messed about with this over a year ago, but
3 weeks ago I tried it again using the step-by-step instructions in the
book, "Providing Internet Services via the MacOS" by Carl Steadman and
Jason Snell. Worked flawlessly. For reasons of copywright, all I can say
is get the book and look on page 76-78.
_________________________________________________________________________
| Gary G. Szabo | |
| Director of Technology & | "The ignorance of how to use |
| Computer Services | new knowledge stockpiles |
| Centralia College | exponentially." |
| Centralia, Washington | |
| gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu | --- Marshall McLuhan |
| (360)736-9391 x363 | |
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:53:36 +0100
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Re: Autoshare configuration problem?
>When I try sending thanne2 a message from another system, the
>following things happen: an entry gets added to Filters:thanne2 that
>contains the *thanne2* email address, *not* the address of the sending
>account (!!), and of course the sending account gets my automated reply no
>matter how many times I send a message from that account.
This is very odd. The setup you describe appears correct. I've checked
this and it works correctly for me. Which version of AutoShare are you
using?
>A second, possibly related, problem that recently occurred is that another
>user sent out a message to several recipients on different systems,
>including this thanne2 account. Not only did she receive my autoreply, but
>the From: line on the autoreply was not my address -- it was the first
>address from the To: line of her original message! The message header for
>the autoreply she received said that it had come from this other person,
>"via" thanne2.
If it said (by way of thanne2) then you almost certainly have version 1.0.
Try getting 1.0.1 from <ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/>.
Incidentally, I just tested this and I fear it is still broken. If you
receive a cc'ed message, the later version of AutoShare still puts the
original To: address into the From: address of its response, and now puts
your address into the x-sender: header (rather than "by way of"). This
still makes it look as if the vacation notice is "from" the person in the
To: header of the original.
Mikael, any comments?
(:-]) James
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:54:56 -0800
From: Gary Szabo <gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu>
Subject: Problems w/subscribers via gateways....
Hi, folks...
Has anyone experienced this problem:
We have *a lot* of users in our statewide consortium of community and
technical colleges who get their internet mail via Microsoft Mail 3.0 on
PCs. Without getting into any obvious Microsoft-bashing, when they try to
subscribe to AutoShare-sponsored listservs on my server, no matter what
they type they get an unceremonious:
>>Invalid listserv command
Any clues would be most appreciated.
_________________________________________________________________________
| Gary G. Szabo | |
| Director of Technology & | "The ignorance of how to use |
| Computer Services | new knowledge stockpiles |
| Centralia College | exponentially." |
| Centralia, Washington | |
| gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu | --- Marshall McLuhan |
| (360)736-9391 x363 | |
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:27:26 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Problems w/subscribers via gateways....
At 17:54 -0800 10/7/96, Gary Szabo wrote:
>when they try to subscribe to AutoShare-sponsored listservs on my server,
>no matter what they type they get an unceremonious:
>
>>>Invalid listserv command
News to me. Can you be more specific about the returned message?
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 19:27:20 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Autoshare configuration problem?
At 18:53 +0100 9/12/96, James Berriman wrote:
>If it said (by way of thanne2) then you almost certainly have version 1.0.
>Try getting 1.0.1 from <ftp://ftp.dnai.com/users/m/meh/AutoShare/>.
1.0.1 was released one week after 1.0 and did indeed include a vacation fix.
>This still makes it look as if the vacation notice is "from" the person
>in the To: header of the original.
This has been fixed in the current beta of 1.1.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:25:31 +0200
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: All may contribute
Hi there,
I have installed Autoshare 1.0. It runs fine for mailing lists
so far but I have the following problem:
The manual documents the following undocumented feature ;-)
>VII. Undocumented features
>
>The features below are considered undocumented, although they appear in this
>AutoShare documentation. They may some day be upgraded to documented features
>or simply go away.
>
>To disable having just subscribers post to the lists, create an empty file
>entitled 'all may contribute' in the same folder as the AutoShare software.
>
Since I want to use Autoshare not only for list but also
for email-downloads I wanted to enable this feature. I created
such a file (tried in any folder - where the application is,
where the lists are, where the archives are, ...). It doesn't
work. Anybody who is not subscribed to the list is not
allowed to GET a file from there and gets the answer
"not subscribed
Does anybody know whether I made any fault or whether this
feature has already gone? Is there a newer version than 1.0
available? Any help would be gladly appreciated.
Thank you.
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:28:20 -0800
From: Gary Szabo <gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu>
Subject: Re: Problems w/subscribers via gateways....
>At 17:54 -0800 10/7/96, Gary Szabo wrote:
>
>>when they try to subscribe to AutoShare-sponsored listservs on my server,
>>no matter what they type they get an unceremonious:
>>
>>>>Invalid listserv command
And then Michael Hansen wrote:
>News to me. Can you be more specific about the returned message?
You can call of the dogs. The problem seems to be specific to MS-Mail 3.0
gateway configuration...some sites apparently have it configured right, and
others don't. I'm trying to get everyone to play nice and share...
Thanks anyway for the prompt response!
_________________________________________________________________________
| Gary G. Szabo | |
| Director of Technology & | "The ignorance of how to use |
| Computer Services | new knowledge stockpiles |
| Centralia College | exponentially." |
| Centralia, Washington | |
| gszabo at centralia.ctc dot edu | --- Marshall McLuhan |
| (360)736-9391 x363 | |
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:14:37 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: All may contribute
At 11:25 +0200 10/15/96, Christoph Reichenberger wrote:
>The manual documents the following undocumented feature ;-)
[...]
>>To disable having just subscribers post to the lists, create an empty file
>>entitled 'all may contribute' in the same folder as the AutoShare software.
>Anybody who is not subscribed to the list is not allowed to GET a file from
>there and gets the answer "not subscribed
Sorry. I don't remember whether this was an oversight in 1.0 or not. This
has been turned into a documented 'open list' feature long ago, in a
version yet to be released, see <http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:17:03 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: AIMS/Autoshare/Macjordomo duplicating emails
I posted the bulk of this mail to the Mailshare-L, but as it might be
Autoshare causing problems, I thought I'd see if any of you have ideas.
We've been having a lot of trouble with this list, like duplicate postings,
postings going missing etc, but this one's the worst...
We run a mailing list here, using AIMs 1.1.1, Autoshare 1.0fix, System
7.5.3, Classic Networking, on a 7100. It has about 40 subscribers (about 10
internal, 30 external), and we've had various problems recently - I was
just wondering if anyone could shed some light, or if we're just pushing it
too hard.
The list used to have about 30 posts a day, but the past week or two, it's
been anywhere up to 150, which obviously causes things to slow up rather.
But a couple of times now, emails have become corrupted - the first line of
the header is full of garbage and partly complete addresses - and the email
keeps duplicating, and coming to me (as list/postmaster I assume).
The first time I managed to delete all the corrupted mail in the queue, and
things cleared up. In fact, I *think* this was back when I was using
Macjordomo 1b10a12 for the list, but I assumed this was causing the
problem, so I switched back to Autoshare. I then installed a new hard drive
and upgraded to 7.5.3 (was 7.5.1). But the problem happened again last
night, only this time far worse as I wasn't here to delete the emails, and
150,000 lines of email got forwarded to my external account...! This, again
was a post to the list, from outside. Also, this morning, an internal post
to an AIMS mailing list had the same problem. And the SimpleText mailing
list file grew to 12.4Mb (it's about 20 names) before I noticed and chucked
it.
I was hoping these problems were down to the old hard drive, but obviously
not. Has anyone had any similar problems? Any thoughts? Is 5000 outgoing
emails a day on one list, plus at least a few hundred generally pushings
things too far?
We're also running QuickDNS Pro 1.0, WebCenter 1.0b3, and Apple e.g. on the
same machine (24Mb, +1Mb VM).
Any help appreciated, but I'm thinking of finding someone with a UNIX
machine to host our list for us, hoping this will solve the problem...
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:28:46 +0100
From: jthompson at directhit dot com (Jerry Thompson)
Subject: Tokens
Greetings,
This is my first posting to the Autoshare list and I had a simple question.
What are all the tokens that I can use within Autoshare? A URL listing
them would be great! I saw only a small handful in the manual.
Also, is there any way via email to subscribe and unsubscribe people? One
of the lists we are setting up would require the ListMom to be able to do
the above via email. Is this possible?
TIA,
Jerry.
________________________________________________
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NDPC/PP List Management
Tel 212.929.0515 ext. 150
Fax 212.633.8218
- "I have seen a glimpse of the future... It's name is Macintosh."
- "Off the keyboard, thru the router, over the bridge, nothing but net!"
________________________________________________
Date: 21 Oct 96 11:20:41 -0700
From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at fsd.k12.ca dot us>
Subject: Autoshare Hanging
When someone attempts to send an Autoshare command to our listserv and =
makes a mistake in their syntax, Autoshare hangs until I manually edit the =
mangled Autoshare message command. =
Here is a specific example that stopped Autoshare this morning: =
SUBpedlist Barbara McBratney
(This should have read "SUB pedlist Barbara McBratney". This missing space =
killed it.)
Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a version with some error =
handling for this kind of mistake? I am using Autoshare 1.0 fix with AIMS =
1.1.1 on a Mac SE30 under System 7.5. Thanks!
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:31:50 +0200
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: Re: Autoshare Hanging
>When someone attempts to send an Autoshare command to our listserv and
>makes a mistake in their syntax, Autoshare hangs until I manually edit the
>mangled Autoshare message command.
>Here is a specific example that stopped Autoshare this morning:
>SUBpedlist Barbara McBratney
>(This should have read "SUB pedlist Barbara McBratney". This missing space
>killed it.)
>
>Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a version with some error
>handling for this kind of mistake? I am using Autoshare 1.0 fix with AIMS
>1.1.1 on a Mac SE30 under System 7.5. Thanks!
Yes, we had the same problems several times already. here is one
example that gets our Autoshare stuck:
(I changed the real email address to xxx since I don't know whether
the sender would agree to publish his address)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Received: from unisoft.co.at (193.186.170.14) by chianti.unisoft.co.at
with ESMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:16:26 +0200
Received: from emout10.mail.aol.com (198.81.11.25) by unisoft.co.at
with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1.1); Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:19:28 +0100
Received: by emout10.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA13206 for
listserv at unisoft.co dot at; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:04:00 -0400
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:04:00 -0400
From: xxxx at aol dot com
Message-ID: <961002100359_116390020 at emout10.mail.aol dot com>
To: listserv at unisoft.co dot at
Subject: SUB popchar_list
SUB popchar_list XX Xxxxxx
Kindly add my name to the PopChar subscription list:
xxxx at aol dot com
Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
With this mail in the filed mail folder, Autoshare will hang.
Cmd-Opt-Escape will terminate Autoshare correctly. After moving
this file out of the filed mail folder and starting Autoshare
again, everything works fine again.
Regards
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:01:42 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Autoshare Hanging
At 11:20 -0700 10/21/96, Tony Anderson wrote:
>Here is a specific example that stopped Autoshare this morning:
>SUBpedlist Barbara McBratney
I myself use the most current development version, so I haven't used any
released version for a good while :-) But I do seem to remember the
situation that you are referring to.
This TALK list does not discuss the current beta for the next released
version, so let me just say that it has been fixed.
At 22:31 +0200 10/21/96, Christoph Reichenberger wrote:
>Cmd-Opt-Escape will terminate Autoshare correctly. After moving
>this file out of the filed mail folder and starting Autoshare
>again, everything works fine again.
Seems right.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:01:46 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Tokens
At 11:28 +0100 10/16/96, Jerry Thompson wrote:
>What are all the tokens that I can use within Autoshare? A URL listing
>them would be great! I saw only a small handful in the manual.
The tokens in the documentation in HTML at
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/> is not complete?
>Also, is there any way via email to subscribe and unsubscribe people? One
>of the lists we are setting up would require the ListMom to be able to do
>the above via email. Is this possible?
Not now using e-mail. Thinking about it...
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:37:36 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Autoshare quirk
We have a list with about 40 members, but we have one person who is unable
to post to the list. It works fine for everyone else, but when she sends
her submission to listname at wired.co dot uk, it appears in AIMS' Debug window,
the computer stops doing anything, as it always does when processing a list
submission, and then it carries on... but it doesn't send the message on to
the recipients of the list, it carries on as if nothing had happened. She's
tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it always does the same thing.
Any ideas why this might be?
Also, in the file that contains the names and addresses of members of the
list, why do numbers appear in some peoples' names? eg
phil at wired.co dot uk (Phil Gyford..3)
And, while I'm here, is it normal for Autoshare to take something like
10-20 seconds to process a posting to 30-40 people? Kind of a pain for
people trying to connect to AIMS on the same machine.
Apart from these little niggles, I do like Autoshare :)
Thanks,
Phil
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:57:12 +0200
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: Re: Autoshare quirk
>We have a list with about 40 members, but we have one person who is unable
>to post to the list. It works fine for everyone else, but when she sends
>her submission to listname at wired.co dot uk, it appears in AIMS' Debug window,
>the computer stops doing anything, as it always does when processing a list
>submission, and then it carries on... but it doesn't send the message on to
>the recipients of the list, it carries on as if nothing had happened. She's
>tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it always does the same thing.
>Any ideas why this might be?
Can't say anything on the above, but on the below 2 issues:
>
>Also, in the file that contains the names and addresses of members of the
>list, why do numbers appear in some peoples' names? eg
>phil@wired.co.uk (Phil Gyford. dot 3)
I assume that the numbers are the coding of the preferences of the
individual persons (like ACK, CONCEAL, ...). They do not appear
for newly subscribed people. However, there's no need to work
in this file manually, is it?
>And, while I'm here, is it normal for Autoshare to take something like
>10-20 seconds to process a posting to 30-40 people? Kind of a pain for
>people trying to connect to AIMS on the same machine.
Autoshare just puts all the mails that have to go out into the
out queue of AIMS. If you use the same AIMS for your Autoshare
and "normal" mails this is a problem that can't be solved by Autoshare
(I guess). We solved the problem by
installing a second server with AIMS AND Autoshare running. Our
"normal" mails go to the server which doesn't run the lists.
This works very good for us.
>Apart from these little niggles, I do like Autoshare :)
Me to! :-)
Regards
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:41:51 +0100
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Re: Autoshare quirk
>We have a list with about 40 members, but we have one person who is unable
>to post to the list.
[snip]
>Any ideas why this might be?
Well, you could try asking her to send a message to another account set to
'save as files', then take a good look at the message (probably overkill if
you don't need to check the sender and recipient resources - just get her
to mail you direct). Some mailers use stationery templates that add words
like 'subject' in the first line of the body (I know this used to confuse
AutoShare). It could also be that the address she's trying to post from
differs slightly from that recorded in the list file (for example, some
people have sendmail configured to reformat addresses so that
sender at domain.com becomes sender at mail dot domain dot com).
>Also, in the file that contains the names and addresses of members of the
>list, why do numbers appear in some peoples' names? eg
>phil@wired.co.uk (Phil Gyford. dot 3)
Means that you have ACK turned on. I believe there's a list of these
numbers in the documentation.
>
>And, while I'm here, is it normal for Autoshare to take something like
>10-20 seconds to process a posting to 30-40 people? Kind of a pain for
>people trying to connect to AIMS on the same machine.
Yes, that's quite normal on a 68K machine. Mikael tells me it flies on his
PowerMac ;-)
>Apart from these little niggles, I do like Autoshare :)
Me too,
( :-]) James
Bizarre sidenote: NetPresenz tells me someone just hit my site looking for
the word SPANKING. I hope they obtained satisfaction from my Stoke Film
Theatre listings page...
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:35:09 +0000
From: Bill Bedford <billbpm at mousa.demon.co dot uk>
Subject: Re:Autoshare quirk
~We have a list with about 40 members, but we have one person who is unable
~to post to the list. It works fine for everyone else, but when she sends
~her submission to listname at wired.co dot uk, it appears in AIMS' Debug window,
~the computer stops doing anything, as it always does when processing a list
~submission, and then it carries on... but it doesn't send the message on to
~the recipients of the list, it carries on as if nothing had happened. She's
~tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it always does the same thing.
~Any ideas why this might be?
Does your member get a bounce message ?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:13:02 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <phil at wired.co dot uk>
Subject: Re: AutoShare quirk
>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:57:12 +0200
>From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
>
>Autoshare just puts all the mails that have to go out into the
>out queue of AIMS. If you use the same AIMS for your Autoshare
>and "normal" mails this is a problem that can't be solved by Autoshare
>(I guess). We solved the problem by
>installing a second server with AIMS AND Autoshare running. Our
>"normal" mails go to the server which doesn't run the lists.
>This works very good for us.
How do you make sure posts to the list go to the second mail server and
everyone else sending mail in or out uses the first?
>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:35:09 +0000
>From: Bill Bedford <billbpm at mousa.demon.co dot uk>
>Subject: Re:Autoshare quirk
>
>Does your member get a bounce message ?
No bounce message at all.
>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:41:51 +0100
>From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
>Subject: Re: Autoshare quirk
>
>Well, you could try asking her to send a message to another account set to
>'save as files', then take a good look at the message (probably overkill if
>you don't need to check the sender and recipient resources - just get her
>to mail you direct). Some mailers use stationery templates that add words
>like 'subject' in the first line of the body (I know this used to confuse
>AutoShare). It could also be that the address she's trying to post from
>differs slightly from that recorded in the list file (for example, some
>people have sendmail configured to reformat addresses so that
>sender@domain.com becomes sender at mail dot domain dot com).
I just asked her to send a message to the list, and cc it to me. It had the
same 'From' line as her list address, it had only "this is a test" in the
'Subject' line, and had nothing at all in the body. It arrived with me OK,
but didn't go to the list. Autoshare did it's usual long freeze while it
apparently processed, but it didn't get sent to the list, and didn't
replace the previously processed message in Autoshare's status window. The
only thing *slightly* odd about this person is that her email name is only
one letter. eg. 'x at wired.co dot uk'. But I can't see why this should cause
problems.
>>And, while I'm here, is it normal for Autoshare to take something like
>>10-20 seconds to process a posting to 30-40 people? Kind of a pain for
>>people trying to connect to AIMS on the same machine.
>
>Yes, that's quite normal on a 68K machine. Mikael tells me it flies on his
>PowerMac ;-)
>
We're running on a 7100/80 with QuickDNS Pro, a very quiet WebCenter, AIMS
and Autoshare. I just timed a couple of list submissions, and the 43 member
list actually takes 50 seconds to process!!! Seems a tad too long, or is
that just me being unrealistic in my hopes?
Sorry for the dreadfully long post, but thanks for all your help :)
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PHIL GYFORD Inter-planetary dialling prefix 44(0)171
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:31:10 +0200
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: 1x Autoshare + 2x AIMS = :-) (was: Autoshare quirk)
>How do you make sure posts to the list go to the second mail server and
>everyone else sending mail in or out uses the first?
We use our normal domain "unisoft.co.at" for any mail coming
from outside. I.e, you send mail to me by sending to
chrei at unisoft.co dot at as well as to our lists
(e.g. voodoo_list at unisoft.co.at, popchar_list at unisoft dot co dot at, ...)
There are 2 machines: rioja is our primary smtp server
where the name server has an MX record for the
domain "unisoft.co.at" - so every mail goes to rioja.
On rioja we have accounts for all
our normal users (like chrei, ...) as well as for the lists.
However, the list accounts are forwarded to chianti.unisoft.co.at
which is the second machine running AIMS AND
Autoshare. On chianti we have set up all the necessary
accounts for autoshare plus the .m and .d accounts.
(you don't need the .m and .d accounts on rioja since
no mails will be sent out from there).
Note, that the 2nd machine (chianti) must not
serve our primary main domain "unisoft.co.at" because there
could be a conflict in serving the "normal" accounts.
This solution works really good for us and the listserver
mails don't disturb the normal mails at all.
HTH
Regards
christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:12:14 +0200
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: Open Lists
Mikael,
I finally succeeded to download the new beta and
am glad to inform you that everything works fine
for me now. This beta in fact allows GETs to
open lists from unsubscribed people. I also found
out that you don't allow REVIEW for unsubscribed -
don't know wheter intended or not - this makes sense
for me. I even thought whether it would make sense
to have two settings "open for contribution" and
"open for GET". In fact I would like to set my lists
to "only subscribed may contribute" but
"everyone may GET". How do you think on that?
Once again thank you for the prompt solution.
Christoph
------------------------------------------------
Christoph Reichenberger Tel: +43-7236-3338-82
UNI SOFTWARE PLUS GMBH Fax: +43-7236-3338-30
Softwarepark Hagenberg, mailto:chrei at unisoft.co dot at (preferred)
A-4232 Hagenberg, Austria mailto:chr at swp.co dot at
http://www.unisoft.co.at/e/Staff/christoph.html
Date: 24 Oct 96 12:27:08 -0700
From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at fsd.k12.ca dot us>
Subject: Hanging Problem and New Beta
Anyone know if the new beta that Mikael is working on (as time allows) =
addresses the problem of Autoshare hanging when it receives malformed =
message commands? I'm having to unhang Autoshare several times daily, and =
it's always caused by malformed listserv messages. Thanks for anyone's =
input who has seen the beta.
..Tony Anderson
Fullerton School District
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:29:47 +0100
From: james at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk (James Berriman)
Subject: Emulating the INFO command
It just occurred to me to try this with AutoShare.
Some listservers support an INFO command so you can get more info on a list
without subscribing.
Tried putting a file called 'Info AutoShare-Talk' in the AutoShare docs
folder. No joy. (I think Autoshare just looks for a file called 'Info').
But putting in a file called 'AutoShare-Talk' works nicely.
So if you want to see my rudimentary AutoShare-Talk info file you can send
mail to autoshare at frutiger.staffs.ac dot uk with body: AutoShare-Talk (I warn
you, it's hardly worth it...).
Anyone else tried this or similar ideas?
( :-]) James
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:22:34 -0700
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Emulating the INFO command
At 13:29 +0100 10/25/96, James Berriman wrote:
>Tried putting a file called 'Info AutoShare-Talk' in the AutoShare docs
>folder. No joy. (I think Autoshare just looks for a file called 'Info').
>
>But putting in a file called 'AutoShare-Talk' works nicely.
This is a variation of the HELP command, which returns the text of a HELP
file. HELP is not a supported command, so it doesn't do anything else, but
it does do that. The trick is to think of the command as a single word
other than a verb, and James's example adds the twist of making us rethink
the situation, so that the command is the object and that the verb is
hidden or understood. Another trick is to think of it as almost a standard
auto-response.
The single word INFO_AutoShare-Talk works as well, and while it may not
seem particularly elegant, the above offers lots of potential.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 01:13:55 +0800
From: Derek Tom <derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Subject: Expected deliveries of new AIMS and AutoShare
As far as I can tell, the current versions are:
AIMS 1.1.1
AutoShare 1.0.1
Is this correct? When and what can we expect of the new versions of AIMS
and AutoShare? I understand Apple is furthering development of AIMS but
what about AutoShare?
Sorry for so many questions. I just haven't heard any news lately about
either of these products. Hope they're not dead. :(
Thanks in advance...
Best,
Derek
.............................
Derek Tom
IT Manager
BBDO Hong Kong
852.2820.1805
852.2877.2167
derek at bbdo.com dot hk
http://www.jwthk.com/derek/
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:23:36 -0800
From: Mikael Hansen <meh at dnai dot com>
Subject: Re: Expected deliveries of new AIMS and AutoShare
At 01:13 +0800 10/29/96, Derek Tom wrote:
>As far as I can tell, the current versions are:
>
>AIMS 1.1.1
>AutoShare 1.0.1
>
>Is this correct?
Both are correct. There is a recent article about the upcoming AIMS 2.0 at
<http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/> And AutoShare is alive as well , see
<http://www.dnai.com/~meh/autoshare/>. No dates though.
--
Mikael Hansen <mailto:meh at dnai dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 20:31:38 +0800
From: Derek Tom <derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
Subject: ERROR: The archive path does not exist
MACHINE: PM 6100/66 (24/500)
MAC OS: 7.5.5
OT: 1.1.1
SOFTWARE: AIMS 1.1.1, AutoShare 1.0.1 (1.0 fix)
NOTES: System is clean but running SpeedDoubler 1.3.1 and Timbuktu 3.0.
AutoBoot and Keep It Up are also installed. No other applications are
running.
AutoShare is processing Listserv mail and commands just fine.
However, it keeps stating that "The archive path does not exist" even
though I've checked that path 5 times and actually trashed preferences and
reconfigured AutoShare from scratch once. I also rebuilt the Desktop file
using TechTool 1.1.2 and ran Norton Disk Doctor.
The error message is not bogus as it's not archiving any of the list messages.
I have been running several mailing lists on a Quadra 650 with a similar
setup for about a year now with absolutely no problems so I'm quite
familiar with the workings.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I would really appreciate any insight/help. Thanks!
Best,
Derek
.............................
Derek Tom
IT Manager
BBDO Hong Kong
852.2820.1805
852.2877.2167
<mailto:derek at bbdo.com dot hk>
<http://www.jwthk.com/derek/>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:38:31 +0100
From: Christoph Reichenberger <chrei at unisoft.co dot at>
Subject: Re: ERROR: The archive path does not exist
>MACHINE: PM 6100/66 (24/500)
>MAC OS: 7.5.5
>OT: 1.1.1
>
>SOFTWARE: AIMS 1.1.1, AutoShare 1.0.1 (1.0 fix)
>
>NOTES: System is clean but running SpeedDoubler 1.3.1 and Timbuktu 3.0.
>AutoBoot and Keep It Up are also installed. No other applications are
>running.
>
>
>AutoShare is processing Listserv mail and commands just fine.
>
>However, it keeps stating that "The archive path does not exist" even
>though I've checked that path 5 times and actually trashed preferences and
>reconfigured AutoShare from scratch once. I also rebuilt the Desktop file
>using TechTool 1.1.2 and ran Norton Disk Doctor.
>
>The error message is not bogus as it's not archiving any of the list messages.
>
>I have been running several mailing lists on a Quadra 650 with a similar
>setup for about a year now with absolutely no problems so I'm quite
>familiar with the workings.
>
>Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
You must create a folder with the name of the lists
WITHIN the Archive folder. Did you try this?
Christoph
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