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And to be sure, because my server was using out-of-date software,  I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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