scott,
Thursday, October 16, 2003 you wrote:
> Ok, I've tried all of these and still no joy. It seems like my
> .bat file is not being called. I added calls to Net::Syslog to
> it, too, and nothing. When I run it at the command prompt, though
> it works fine.
This might indicate a permissions issue. Normally IMAIL will run
under system context. So make certain that your perl bin directory
and perl program can be accessed by System. Frequently these have
"everyone - all" permissions but I've seen servers where System had
to be added explicitly.
Of course if you've changed the context for IMAIL then you have to
add that user to the perl and program permissions.
Usually registry permissions are okay.
It also could be that you need to include a CD to the directory your
script is in. I've had to do this sometimes and I'm not really
certain why. (like cd "c:\wsh\")
The way to know if your alias is working or not is to look in your
spool file for a .tmp file. You can view it in a text editor.
Yes, I suspect almost all of us went through this when we made our
first program alias. The way I did it was that I started with the
example in the Knowledge Base. I copied it exactly and got it to
work.
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19980116-DD11.htm
You can make almost anything up for the alias though and the .tmp
file will be created in the spool. I don't think there is much
error reporting in the logs - maybe in debug - but I haven't tried
it in a long time.
Then I changed the bat file and kept messing with it until I got it
to work with my perl script.
But I recall this being very frustrating when I started.
HTH
Terry Fritts
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