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- From: rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Vandenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: V-MailServer 1.22
- Message-ID: <803PwB4w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 16:02:06 PST
- References: <y2sNwB2w165w@valpso.hanse.de>
- Organization: Vandenberg Systems Research, Vancouver BC
- Lines: 87
-
- tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer) writes:
-
- >
- > A couple of days ago a friend installed V-MailServer ver.1.22 in my PC,
- > because I wanted to make two mailing-lists (one in German and the other
- > one in Spanish). At the moment I have 15 email adresses for each list
- > and now I have a problem with the site from where I poll. Since the
- > administrator uses UNIX (Interactive), he is used that if somebody has
- > a mailing list, he can send ONE mail for MANY users, for example 10 or
- > more users at once:I have to send ONE MAIL for EACH member of each mail-
- > list. Is there a way to do it like in UNIX? I understood that in UNIX it
- > is possible to use up to 512 columns in a row, e.g:
- >
- > user1@aaa.AAA,user2@bbb.BBB,user3@ccc.CCC,user4@ddd.DDD, etc.
- >
- > up to 512 characters.
-
- Version 2.0, slated for release in February, handles multiple
- addresses, up to 128 characters in length. This is an MSDOS limitation.
- I cannot use the longer Unix command line, because V-MailServer doesn't
- queue files directly in the Waffle spool queue. Instead it calls RMAIL
- to handle the delivery of the messages. V-MailServer is designed to
- work with any MSDOS UUCP software - Waffle, UUPC, whatever. To allow it
- to create the actual spool files would for me to write code to support a
- half-dozen different UUCP packages. Their format could change at any
- time, and would cause be no end of grief.
-
- >
- > What also is a little annoying is that if somebody sends any command to
- > my mail-server (e.g. subscribe ABCD-L), everyone on the mailing list
- > receives it also. Is there also a way to eliminate this?
-
- This should _not_ happen. The aliases file should have different
- entries for mailing lists, the mail-server, and any AFS addresses.
-
- Example:
-
- ; mailing list
- vmail-l c:\waffle\bin\vmail.exe -t vmail-l
-
- ; mail server
- mail-server c:\waffle\bin\vmail.exe -t mail-server
-
- ; AFS address
- vmail-info-request c:\waffle\bin\vmail.exe -t vmail-info-request
-
- ; The 'MAILSENDERNAME' - in case a message comes
- ; back, due to delivery problems
- vms-daemon | tichauer
-
-
- I don't know why the mailing list would receive the subscribe request
- also, except that maybe the mail-server alias points to both the
- mail server _and_ the mailing list. By the way, the necessity to use
- the "-t" option above is eliminated in Version 2.0. In the meanwhile,
- users of version 1.22 are strongly encouraged to use it. The reason is
- that version 1.22 only looks at the To: header to determine the address,
- if "-t" is not used. Any message that comes in with a different
- address, or one that is in the Cc: header, will be seen as a message to
- the mail server, as opposed to a mailing list or AFS address. Version
- 2.0 looks at the "-t" parameter, the Received: header, and the To: and
- Cc: header, in that order.
-
-
- > It would be nice that there is a way to spare band width with mail-lists
- > and I hope that somebody has a solution for it. I wish all of you a Happy
- > New Year (it will start here in another 5 hours)
-
- Mailing lists can cause a _lot_ of traffic, especially for a small site.
- There is almost no way around it. Multiple addresses help to reduce the
- traffic to about 1/3 of the volume, but can cause problems of their own.
- Some sites seem to have a problems with messages sent to them with
- multiple addresses. I still don't know exactly what causes the problem.
-
- You should subscribe the the vmail-l mailing list, because it might
- provide you with a few tips. Send the command 'SUBSCRIBE vmail-l', to
- mail-server@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca. You can also obtain some application
- notes from this address. Use the command 'INDEX' to find out what files
- are available.
-
- Rick
-
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