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- From: andrea@pX1.stfx.ca (John Andrea)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: ?modifying mail profile?
- Summary: more tools for modifying others mail profile
- Keywords: mail profile modify question
- Message-ID: <andrea.728156651@pX1.stfx.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:44:11 GMT
- Sender: usenet@nstn.ns.ca (NNTP Entity)
- Distribution: comp.os.vms
- Organization: NSTN Network Operations Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lines: 44
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- I'm pretty sure that I want to set all my users mail profiles to have
- auto_purge set on. Mostly students as users, but everyone is eating up
- disk/quota with deleted mail messages and few people set it on for
- themselves.
-
- But is seems that MAIL will only let system users modify forwarding
- addresses (for VMS 5.4-2). And not modify any other options.
-
- Thanks to Bob Marshall for sending me a copy of MAILUAF.COM for
- modifying the profile data. But that procedure doesn't seem to know
- about the auto_purge flag.
-
- So my questions
-
- 1. Does anyone have a small procedure for doing exactly what i want ?
- To turn on auto_purge for any or all users listed in the mail
- profile.
-
- 2. What are the flag settings ?
- I'll try hacking up MAILUAF.COM into something that can do the job
- for me (i can do DCL programming) but what are the bit settings
- inside that flag variable that controls the auto_purge setting.
-
- 3. How does one get listed in the mail profile ?
- I'll want to set auto_purge to on for any new users that i add from
- now on, and so will use that small procedure (see 1 & 2 above) for
- the setting from inside my add_user procedure.
- But i've looked at the existing mail profile data file and see that
- not all users have a mail profile record.
- Do you not get a record until you have mail ?
- If thats true then my add_user could send mail to the new user then
- make the setting for auto_purge right away.
- But some users who have logged on don't have a record. Is it bacause
- they don't have any mail ?
- This seems to be true for anyone who has set forwarding to a
- different system.
-
- Any help is appreciated.
-
- John Andrea
- andrea@essex.stfx.ca
-
- VAX System Manager, St. F. X. University, Antigonish, NS CANADA
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