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As always on this list, the replies to my question about
"Sending mail with Arachne", have been great.
First, for Clarence Verge:
1. I have 80 to 90 mailing list FILEs. You asked if just
one of them, or all of them, during the last few weeks fail
when Arachne attempts to send mail To: @FILE
Your thinking is exactly the same as mine. I first thought
I had 1 corrupted FILE of mailing addresses. Therefore,
I have tried 20 to 30 out of the 80 or 90 FILEs. They all
fail in the same manner.
2. You asked if there could be a DOS error being generated.
I have experience that in the past, with a DOS error message
overwriting the Arachne page, in the upper left corner, with
a message such as "Bad file or command".
That is not happening, when Arachne refuses to send
To: @FILE
3. The error message is actually being reported, within
Arachne, at the bottom of the Arachne screen, on the
"progress reporting line" (if that is what the bottom line
might be called.
The "progress reporting line" starts reporting that Arachne
has linked to the SMTP server with the following series of
statements on the "progress reporting line". Some of these
lines include (something else) because the statements change
so fast, just flashing for a second, that it is impossible
to fully read some of them:
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Michael Polak, Arachne Labs
processing form
asking domain (and something else)
connecting to SMTP (port 25)
HELO (and something else)
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
4. The "RCPT TO: <(null)>" repeats and repeats, very rapidly,
until I exit/crash Arachne. Otherwise, it would continue in
that loop forever.
5. I have followed your advice and copied over a fresh version
of ARACHNE.CFG (with no improvement). I am searching for a
fresh version of MIME.CFG to copy over, to see if that solves
the problem.
Second, to Sam Heywood:
6. Do appreciate your information that some ISPs are limiting
the number of recipients of a single mailing, to help control
spam. I had never heard of this. Great idea. Anything to
prevent unwanted mail from clogging our mailboxes is great.
7. However, each of my 80 to 90 mailing FILEs has a
maximum of 5 or 6 addressees. I suspect the effort to stop
spam might set a limit of a 100 or 1000 addressees. Nevertheless,
I will contact technical support, since I find your information
valuable. I totally endorse all effort to stop spam.
Thanks to all for your interest and help in chasing down my
problem of TO: @FILE
It worked so well for 6 months that I am now spoiled, and want
to get it working again.
Ross Virgin
Toronto, Canada
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On Wed, 09 May 2001 17:11:24 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Ross Virgin wrote:
>> For 2 weeks now, everytime I try to mail to one of those
>> 80 or 90 "FILE"s Arachne says "syntax error".
>> Yet the 80 or 90 FILEs have not been changed or touched
>> in any way from the same FILEs which have been used
>> for many months ..... previously with no problem, no
>> "syntax error".
>> I have been using the Arachne 1.66 , on the same computer,
>> with the same modem, on the same phone line, to the
>> same ISP
>> What the heck is going on ..................
> Hi Ross;
> Do you mean that ONE of the 80/90 files gives a problem or ALL of them do ?
> Where do you see the error message ?
> I ask this because it sounds like a DOS message.
> It is possible that your Arachne.cfg has been corrupted, but I can't imagine
> exactly what change would produce that DOS error message. I only say this is
> possible because it happens frequently.
> Or maybe the error is in MIME.cfg. This contains a series of one line command
> strings that are fed to DOS by Arachne.
> I'm just guessing here without checking, but it seems possible that commands
> like copy, rename, delete, find etc. could produce that message under some
> conditions.
> Taking care not to lose your current .CFGs, copy over those two config files
> from another version.
> - Clarence Verge
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