As far as I know program aliases need to be exe's with no parameters.

I'm shure someone will correct me if I am wrong.


Kevin Bilbee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Martin Oliver Madsen
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Problem with program alias in Imail 8.1
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with a program alias that should send me an email:
> 
> '-----------
> ' Set the shell object
> Set Shell = CreateObject("wscript.shell")
> 
> ' Send confirmation of update email code here
> retval = Shell.Run("D:\IMail\imail1.exe -f 
> D:\IMail\Sniffer\text.txt -s 'Sniffer Update OK' -t 
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -u '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'", 0 true)
>         
> Set Shell = Nothing
> '-----------
> 
> When I run this script in my command prompt everything works 
> okay, but when running from a program alias nothing happens. 
> Here is what I have tried in the program alias:
> 
> C:\WINNT\system32\cscript.exe D:\IMail\Sniffer\sniffer_update.vbs
> cscript D:\IMail\Sniffer\sniffer_update.vbs
> D:\IMail\Sniffer\sniffer_update.vbs
> 
> No email is sent to me!
> 
> I then tried to make a handler that would trigger this vbs 
> script, if vb-scripts was not allowed as the 'resolves to' 
> program in a program alias.
> 
> Here is what that .bat holds:
> 
> copy %1 D:\IMail\Sniffer\bluebird.txt
> cd d:\Imail\Sniffer
> sniffer_update.vbs %1
> 
> The first line in the bat file is executed (the file is 
> copied) but the vbs is never executed or the vbs file does 
> nothing when run from a program alias.
> 
> What am I missing ?? I am running Windows 2000 (completely 
> pathed) and Imail 8.1
> 
> Thanks for any info,
> 
> /Martin
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