Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

    OK tim you've lost me straight away....
    where exactly are you setting forward to?
    
    do you mean that on all your ALL-IN-1 accounts called BUTLER_T you
    want to set them to all forward to the same place e.g
    BUTLER@NOTA1@REALJOB or all to different places... and if so why?
    
    sounds like a job for an asynchronous script server or something like
    that (:==:)
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks 
                                                                     

    What it really comes down to is that a customer is creating duplicate
    accounts on another node and was trying to change the mail forward
    field in the profile. (set autoforward to the original account) I also
    believe he is trying to disallow mail.
    
    They are doing this because the account created is for a special
    application that requires this other ALL-IN-1 account. (I can't
    change this!) 
    
    It turns out mail auto_forward does more than just set the field
    in the profile.
    
    The customer wants to include this additional processing when he
    creates the new account.  I am wondering if this can be done.
    
    Thanks Anrew!
    
    
    Tim

    Re .3
    
>    It turns out mail auto_forward does more than just set the field
>    in the profile.
    
    As far as I can see all it does is raise the privileges of an ALL-IN-1
    administrator before changing the profile fields. Was the customer
    trying to do this from an unprivileged account?
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart

    Well, I have it down to this:
    
    put the following in mail_forward of an account: any-valid-address
    
    newdir to that account
    
    em
    
    and get a stack dump, acc vio.  Nothing with oa$msg_trap.
    
    < STARS V2.5-6 - For help press HELP or PF2 >
    Logging Into ALL-IN-1 Or Accessing EM Results in Stack Dump
    
    
    Is this related?  Note, I used a valid address in the mail_forward
    field of the accounts profile.
    
    Thanks,
    
    
    Tim

    Hi,
    
    I've reproduced your ACCVIO and here's the scoop.
    
    When the MAIL FORWARD function runs it formats the address into the
    format:
    
    	Pretty Name ( Address )
    
    where Pretty name is 37 characters long. It then writes this into the
    MAIL_FORWARD* fields.
    
    When you NEWDIR to the user and type EM it executes the MAIL INITIALIZE
    function which finds that the forward address is set and then assumes
    that the address is in the above format. All you need to do to get the
    ACCVIO is put an unformatted address in the field, e.g. just the
    address portion with no brackets and no Pretty Name.
    
    So with a bit of luck all you need to is format your address before
    putting it in the profile fields. One other thing to do is clear
    MAIL_FORWARD2, MAIL_FORWARD3 and MAIL_FORWARD4 if you're not using
    them.
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart

    Thanks Stuart!
    
    Using the full address worked.
    
    get #addr = "Tim Butler                           ( BUTLER_T )"
    write change profil %key="account-name", mail_forward = #addr
    
    
    newdir account-name                               
    em
    brings up the form and the display:
    	Forwarding messages to Tim Butler ( BUTLER_T )