Re: Messages not getting through

[David West]

Thanks for the offer, Don , but  I've sorted it.  The ims.ctl file just said: [AutoReply] RecordReplies=Yes I had left the [Delivery] section out of the ims.ctl file so, of course, I got all the messages! Also, I can't spel !!!   I had called the file "autoreply.txt" instead of "autorply.txt". So  the record replies didn't work either! What is interesting is that it appears that you only need the ims.ctl file if you want to record replies or discard the messages.  Just having  an autorply.txt file (correctly named!) in a mailbox is sufficient to send the reply. Ims.ctl is still needed for autoforwarding. David Don DeCosta wrote: Autoreply just does that, it autoreplies that you are out of the office, it doesn't do anything with the e-mail so if you normally get 800 e-mails, you'd still get 800 e-mail.  Just each sender would get a message from you saying you aren't in and will not respond until you return.   Now if you want your e-mails auto forwarded to some other address and you don't want to see them when you return then you need the AutoForward and Discard settings in your CTL file.   Maybe you could send your CTL file to the list and we can better explain what you've done and you can tell us what you think you've done.   Don DeCosta -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:12 PM To: 'imsusers' Subject: Messages not getting through I sent the following about 2 wks ago and it didn’t get on to the list. Presumably Rockliffe must have some filter which trashed it.   This makes me wonder why the list is still run by Rockliffe.  Couldn’t one of us run it?   Replies to the queries below are still welcome, thought I have now learnt about Klint’s IMSCTL project thanks to Don (When will it be ready, Klint? And doesn’t the user need to be able to edit the autorply and autofwd files as well as the ctl file?)   David   -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 July 2004 00:01 To: 'imsusers@rockliffe.com' Subject: Auto-Reply not working   Before I went on holiday recently I set up an ims.ctl file and an autorply.txt file to let everyone know I was away.   When I got back there were 800+ emails awaiting me.   What did I do wrong?   A colleague set up an autoreply.txt file for a user _without_ an ims.ctl file and it worked fine!!   While on the subject of ims.ctl and associated files, is there any way of allowing the user to create/edit these files themselves?   We have all user mailboxes set up on the same server as ims, using the c:\mailboxes\%Username% format, so the users do _not_ have direct access to their mailboxes, only through pop3. (incidentally, does any one use the %home%/mailbox format for defining the location of a users mailbox?)   David West IT Manager John Ruskin College