On Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 12:03:55 PM, Nick wrote:
>> 1. You're talking about Reply and Forward templates only, New
>> Message templates not included, right?
> No, my forward template is the same in all levels, but the Reply
> and New Message templates are the ones that are affected.
Ok, I was asking because you mentioned in your first message that:
> In addition, when I try to forward a message, all I receive is a
> blank message, with no address included nor forwarded text.
If your forward template is the same in all levels, this shouldn't
happen. So, anyway, we now narrow down to New Message templates and
Reply templates.
New Message templates are more complicated for TB's "feature/bug" of
"appending" (some) default template macros to the controlling
template, as discussed in the other thread. I'll save it for later
and see if we can solve the Reply template first (if you are still
interested in solving it).
> Yes, that is correct. I also have my signatures set up in a
> similar fashion... each one is it's own text file that is included
> via the %PUT macro. In effect, there are text files within text
> files, but all follow the template/macro rules. Really, the only
> difference between the various templates, are the signature files,
> and it's those signature files that are being overridden by the
> generic signature (also text file) at the account level.
Ok, according to your description, I recreated the default Reply
template of one of my accounts, as the following line (indented for
clarity, there's no leading spaces in any of the templates discussed
here):
%INCLUDE="g:\tmp2\def template.txt"
The content of "def template.txt" is:
On %DATE, at %OTIMELONG, %OFROMNAME Wrote:
%QUOTES
%CURSOR
%PUT="g:\tmp2\def sig.txt"
%SINGLERE
As you can see, the above was copied from yours as shown in the
first message, except the file path for the signature file.
The content of "def sig.txt" is (one line):
Ming-Li (Default)
Similarly, I changed the AB Reply template of myself (and I made
sure the email address is the one I'm going to test with) to (again,
one line):
%INCLUDE="g:\tmp2\test template.txt"
The content of "test template.txt" is the same as "def sig.txt",
except the signature file used with the %PUT macro is "g:\tmp2\test
sig.txt", the content of which is (one line):
Ming-Li (Test)
Now, after sending my TestBat account a test message, I tried to
reply to myself from the TestBat account. First I tried with the
"Use a specific template for replies" option in my AB UNCHECKED, and
sure enough, the "Ming-Li (Default)" signature was used. Then I
tried again with the option checked, and "Ming-Li (Test)" was used,
as expected.
So far none of us could duplicate your misfortune, let's see if
there's any way you may duplicate my little test.
1. Please double check the usual suspects first: does the email
address of the AB entry match the one of the message you're replying
to? Is the AB template's %INCLUDE macro referring to the right text
file? Is the %PUT macro in that text file referring to the right
signature file?
2. Copy the AB template (not the actual template file, but the one
line template in the AB) and paste it to the account template, and
see how it goes. (This is to make sure it's indeed the account
template which is in effect.)
3. Create a temporary account (like my TestBat account). You don't
really need to acquire a new account; just create a new account and
use the same data as your main account (except setting it not to
check mail). Don't touch the default account templates in any way.
Then copy the message to which you want to reply to the Inbox of the
new account. Now try to reply from the new account and see if the AB
template works.
Since I'm not sure how much you want to pursue this (since you seems
to be content with folder templates), I'll stop here. If you get
this far and the problem remains, we'll try some other tests to
narrow it down.
--
Best regards,
Ming-Li
The Bat! 1.47 Beta/7 | Win2k SP1
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