Re: My Millennium Preferred Searches Email

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at mail dot lafayette dot edu>]

At 10:24 AM 07/14/2005 -0400, Eeva wrote:
> Good morning!  HELP!  We've had problems for "months" or more now getting 
> the Preferred Searches email/notification to work!  I've played around 
> with Millennium Alert Options and consulted with III re: setting up the 
> "From" field (we've got it in there as 'exporter').  We're "stumped"!  Do 
> any of you have any suggestions as to how to set this up???  I noticed 
> before that the lines in the options file are commented out (preceded with 
> "#").  I thought that maybe this is what caused the problem, but when I 
> took this out, it still didn't work...  I was wondering if anyone out 
> there who does have this working would be willing to email me (off list) a 
> copy of your email alert options file so that I can compare it with 
> ours.  Thanks so much!  Any advice you can offer is MOST WELCOME!  Kind 
> regards, Eeva


Note that the pound signs (#) are not really commenting out the lines but 
are a necessary part of the trigger.  (See the manual, page 102171.)

And this is just a shot in the dark, but your Alert Options file does not 
include a #HOST trigger;  I'd try adding the following:

#HOST=iii.lpl.london.on.ca

The manual says that the trigger is not required, but since your server 
appears to have at least one alias, it might make a difference if you 
specify the actual host name associated with the email user "exporter" in 
the Alert Options file.  (Just guessing here.)

I'll send a copy of our file off-list.

Bob Duncan


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