[sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

I've been doing Sniffer updates via a scheduled task. Am trying to get it working via a Program Alias in response to update notifications. Thealias and .cmd fileare in place, butit won't activate via the notifications, even when I send a test message to it. I get acopy of the notification

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

Hello, I was having this problem and found that I did not have these files in place. Send-rotate.cmd Send-stop.cmd Send-reload.cmd This would not explain your being able to execute the process manually though Sincerely, Brian W. Packham Orange County Online, Inc.

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

Have you checked out ImailSnifferUpdateTools.zip? It contains detailed instructions and can be downloaded from http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/AutomatingUpdatesHelp.html Bill From: Glenn \ WCNet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 12:43 PMTo:

[sniffer] New Spam Arrival Rates UP 50% in the past 2 weeks!

Hello Sniffer folks, and Sniffer Support, I have just completed an analysis of the New Spam Arrival Rates over the past two weeks. Two weeks ago at this time, we were receiving a new (as yet unfiltered) spam at our traps at a rate of approximately 23 messages per hour. Over the past

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

That is what I'm using. I tried editing the .cmd file to do away with the variables and hard-wire my parameters into it. It works either way (before or after eliminating the variables) when executed manually. It does not work via Program Alias -- my .snf file does not change when an

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

You might want to try the following which resolved this problem for me (a while ago) 1. The IMail program alias is: c:\Sniffer\snfupd.bat 2. I created a .bat file which is: echo off cd\ c:\sniffer snfupd.cmd All of my Sniffer programs and files are in the c:\sniffer

Re: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

Well blow me down. That did the trick, least-wise it does for triggering by a test message! I'll know for sure when the next notification arrives. Thanks!!! G.Z. - Original Message - From: George Kulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

There seemed to be a problem with IMail running a cmd file and since the bat file worked so I didn't bother checking further. I did two other things which might be of interest to you: I set the Alias that receives the notification email (in my case [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as a standard alias that

Re: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

I had tried renaming the .cmd as .bat and running that via the Alias, but that also didn't work. The nested .bat - .cmd does work, for whatever reason. I did set up the double-alias situation. Thanks for the tip on deleting the .tmp file. I suppose that could run into a conflict if there are

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

Strange, the script does not leave any temp files in my spool directory. Bill -Original Message- From: George Kulman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:55 PM To: sniffer@SortMonster.com Subject: RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates There seemed to be a problem

RE: [sniffer] Auto Sniffer Updates

Did you happen to comment out or not change either of the following variables in your script to point to the correct drive\directory paths?: SET SnifferDrive=c: SET SnifferDir=c:\imail\declude\sniffer Which cause the calls to these variables later in the script's execution to fail: