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. ------------ 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 And to be sure, because my server was using out-of-date software, I could find no bad attaachment template on my lists' web interfaces to tell them that their attachments were blocked.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, ___________________ Jane-Kerin Moffat <[log in to unmask]>