On Sat, 12 May 2001 22:32:39 +0000, Ross Virgin wrote:
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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
If everyone on the (individual message), list receives 2 copies of this
message (1 directly from me, the other from the list)....
Then the mailing list function in Arachne is working just fine.
--
Glenn
http://arachne.cz/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
