Fri, 16 Apr 1993 14:47:54 +0200
|
A fix shipment is being distributed to prevent a second occurrence of the
SAS-L loop. In addition to the fix for that problem, this shipment will
introduce a number of changes as a result of development code added
shortly after 1.7f was released:
- The free storage "warning" thresholds for non-backbone servers have
been increased to reflect the fact that all servers are now liable to
receive DISTRIBUTE jobs for their own local users.
- The FOR command was converted to PASCAL to fix a number of problems
associated with "Subscription= Open,Confirm" lists and as a result
LSVFOR EXEC is now obsolete. To provide consistent behaviour, the
"victim" will now be mailed the command output even if the FOR command
was sent via TELL.
- SHORTBSMTP is now the default header type for BITNET subscribers as
well. Users whose mailer (still) cannot handle this type of addresses
must issue a 'SET listname SHORTHDR' command.
- The historical "To: count" loop detector is no longer active by default
(that is, "Loopcheck= NoToCount" is now the default). To reactivate it,
code "Loopcheck= ToCount<,MaxTo(nnn)>". Note that this function
predates "Daily-Threshold=" and merely ensured that loops never ran
indefinitely; it did not actually prevent delivery errors from being
posted to the list.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you must add:
NDMAIL = 1
to LOCAL SYSVARS if you run LMail or XMAILER R2.10. Even though LISTSERV
will set this variable when it realizes it is dealing with LMail, it
should be in the configuration file to avoid problems if MAILER is not
logged on when LISTSERV is started. To date 18 servers are sending PUNCH
format files to a ND-capable mailer and that is a pity.
Eric
|
|
|