On Fri, 4 Jan 91 21:36:00 EST "James F. Bradshaw (803) 656-2407" <JAMES@CLEMSON> said: > 1) 550 Error Message What needs to be done to correct this scenario? > Sample text follows: It's a problem at their site, ie *they* know how to fix it (if they don't, they should call the software vendor). They have apparently decided to restrict access to the internet via some exit such that anybody can send but not everybody can receive mail. There is nothing you can do about it, apart from complaining. If I were you, I'd give them a choice between ensuring that anybody who sends can also receive, or cutting service off for their whole site; I'm just not looking forward to hundreds of bounced mail in my reader because users are desperately trying to order help files from my server and don't know that they can only post... > 2) The subscriber's EMAIL appears to contain an expansion of > nickname's text within the body of his messages. When posting to > the list, the "nickname expansion" doesn't present any problems; Other than being a royal pain in the chairwarmer for the other people. > Are there PROFS options to suppress the "nicknames expansion"? PROFS requires no configuration option, since it is delivered to the site in a perfect state (by definition). PF9 is HELP, the forward/backward PFkeys can be about anything except PF7/PF8 and vary according to the panel - as you can see, the brain-damaging is not limited to nickname expansion. There are two solutions. First, the nicknames are placed by PROFS in the beginning of the message file the user is editing. Although the cursor is initially placed below them, I understand that you are not prevented from moving it up and overwriting the lines in question if such is your desire. Second, if you place a '//whatever JOB' card somewhere in the message, the JCL pre-processor will discard anything it encountered before. Neither is a good solution, but then PROFS isn't a good solution either ;-) Eric