Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:29:29 -0400
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At 8:35 AM -0500 8/28/01, Conor Doyle wrote:
>I'm trying to allow attachments on one of my lists. When I use the command
>"attachments = yes" as specified in the manual, the response is that the
>keyword is not found. Any ideas? Any ideas would be great.
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Maybe this will help. (It is a more or less condensed summary of
info in this lists archives).
First of all, the default setting is "attachments= yes" (see the
on-line L-soft manual), so, if you want attachments you don't have to
change a thing. .
Blocking attachments is something else again. Several months ago I
tried to reconfigure two lists by adding the key word "attachments=
no". What I found was that neither my server's software nor the
DOWNLOADABLE L-soft manuals available from the L-soft website were
fully up to date; nor was the auto-respond information produced by
the INFO KEYWORDS command.. ONLY THE ONLINE MANUAL WAS FULLY
UP-TO-DATE. (I don't know if this is still be the case.) Result:
when I added the keyword "attachments= no" I got the following (which
may be what you got):
>Warning: There is no keyword by that name - check the spelling.
>Please refer to the list keyword documentation (available via the
>"INFO KEYWORDS" command) for more information about keyword syntax.
>Since only warnings have been issued, the list will be stored anyway.
Despite the warning, "attachments- no" successfully blocked most
attachments. HOWEVER, the autorespond message that went back to the
senders of attachments confused them totally. It said:
>Mail template "BAD_ATTACHMENT" not found.
And to be sure, because my server was using out-of-date software, I
could find no bad attaachment template on my lists' web interfaces
to tell them that their attachments were blocked. Happily for me, a
knowledgeable colleague told me I could make up for that modifying
the lists' MAILTPLs myself. This I easily did, following the
instructions in the manual. (I cannot recall the instructions off
hand, or I'd tell you how here. All I recall was that the first
time I did it it didn't work--because of a typo. Once I corrected
the typo, it worked perfectly.)
Later I found the exact text of L-soft's own bad attachment template
in this list's archives (Message from Ben Parker, February 13, 2001).
Here it is.
>Your posting to the &LISTNAME list has been rejected because it
>contains an attachment of type '&TYPE;'. The &LISTNAME list has been
>configured to reject such attachments; please contact the list owner
>at &LISTNAME-request@&MYHOST for more information.
As for my host updating its listserv software: on May 21 Ben Parker wrote:
>[Your host] needs to update/upgrade [its] LISTSERV installation by installing
>the 2000b Level Set Build made available on 16 July 2000. The regular build
>kits for all OS platforms are available from our ftp site:
>ftp://ftp.lsoft.com.
>There is no charge if their maintenance is up to date.
Caveat: Of course only L-soft can take care of the problem of
out-of-date downloadable L-soft manuals and autoresponse to INFO
KEYWORDS. Maybe it has already done so. I have not checked.
Good luck,
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Jane-Kerin Moffat
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