kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (09/05/89)
I have the following line in my sys file that does not seem to work:
#
# Mail rec.humor.funny to users
#
funnystuff:rec.humor.funny::mail user1 user2 user3
I wondered whether it was lack of a flag in the flag field. I created the
following entry:
#
# testing
test:ba.test::mail kayvan
I posted various articles with local distribution to ba.test and did not
get a copy of the articles... I tried putting the 'B' flag in the
flag field, making:
test:ba.test:B:mail kayvan
No change. I did not get mailed the articles I posted. What gives?
Incidentally, the following line *does* work:
#
# Locally generated news gets sent to usenet as well
#
localstuff:ba,ca,inet,world,bionet,unix-pc,usrgroup,comp,sci,news,\
rec,soc,talk,misc,na,usa,alt,pubnet,su,biz,essug,gnu,to,\
!to.coherent.ctl,!to.mrspoc.ctl:L:mail usenet
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, Geoff and Henry, for the great software.
---Kayvan
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Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvangeoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) (09/06/89)
Kayvan Sylvan: >I have the following line in my sys file that does not seem to work: >funnystuff:rec.humor.funny::mail user1 user2 user3 This seems to be a common problem. Remember that in order to match a sys file entry, an article's Newsgroups: must match the newsgroup pattern given in the sys file entry, *and* the article's Distribution: ("world" by default) must match the distribution pattern in the sys file entry (which by default is the sys file entry's newsgroup pattern). In B news, this is conventionally written as funnystuff:rec.humor.funny,world,!world.all::mail user1 user2 user3 C news lets you give the distribution pattern separately, so either of these would also work: funnystuff:rec.humor.funny/world::mail user1 user2 user3 funnystuff:rec.humor.funny/all::mail user1 user2 user3 -- Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (09/06/89)
In article <1989Sep5.175836.16963@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes: >>I have the following line in my sys file that does not seem to work: >>funnystuff:rec.humor.funny::mail user1 user2 user3 > >This seems to be a common problem. Remember that in order to match a >sys file entry, an article's Newsgroups: must match the newsgroup >pattern given in the sys file entry, *and* the article's Distribution: >("world" by default) must match the distribution pattern in the sys >file entry... Incidentally, our apologies for not making sure that this was documented conspicuously. On the theory that examples are better than specifications for such things, one of the recent patches put an example of this into the prototype sys file we supply. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu