On 10/29/2002 07:14:36 PM Eric Thomas  wrote:

>> q tag d
>> PUN  000D TAG NOT SET
>
>No I meant TAG QUERY FILE 149. Something tells me it will say:
>
>*FROM* *FROM* SMTP2@MSACVM

Yep, that's what it says.

>What is supposed to happen when you try to buy LISTSERV for VM is that
you are
>sold a package including both LISTSERV and LMail. I have heard salesmen
call
>the package just "LISTSERV for VM" or "LISTSERV-TCP/IP," presumably
because
>LMail is only available for VM and is a pre-req. I suggest you call your
>salesman and figure it out.

Maybe our sales guy is new. He originally misquoted the price and came
back asking for more money after we'd already sent the payment. My manager
wasn't too happy.

>The fundamental problem with FAL is that mail to owner-listname and all
the
>other extra mailboxes ends up in the bit-bucket.

I was wondering about that. The install guide says nothing about creating
these addresses and I wasn't looking forward to keeping the NAMES file up
to date will all these list-related addresses.

>Finally you need a dummy VM account for every list and LISTSERV
>needs D privileges to poll them.

Yes. Again, no mention of this in the VM install guide but I was pointed
in that direction by someone on this list.

>With LMail this is only necessary if you want
>to allow SENDFILE of a non-mail file to a list, in addition postings are
>processed instantly, without having to wait for the polling to occur.
Polling
>also consumes a lot of cycles for nothing if you have thousands of lists.
The
>safest thing to do is to allocate a domain for LISTSERV and route it to a
SMTP
>server that forwards all incoming mail to LMail. This way your production
users
>keep using FAL for now. Actually, the main selling point of LMail was
that CMS
>users loved the incoming mail notifications and the options you can set
(eg
>PROFS format for OV users), but this would be a separate project.

Well, I'll definitely look into LMail but I'll keep this suggestion in
mind as well. We will eventually have thousands of lists and I'd rather
not clutter up the CP directory if I don't have to. And given our current
budget crunch and the original purchase snafu I'm not sure I'll be
successful in campaigning for LMail.

Thanks for all your help and for filling in the blanks.

lisa